Trade Threats, Trade Wars: Bargaining, Retaliation, and American Coercive Diplomacy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780472113583)

This study of American trade policy addresses two puzzles associated with the use of aggressive bargaining tactics to open foreign markets. First, as the country with greater power and resources, why has the United States achieved more success in extracting concessions from some of its trading partners than others? Second, why is it that trade disputes between democratic and authoritarian states do not more frequently spark retaliatory actions than those between democratic pairs?
Ka Zeng finds answers to both of these questions in the domestic repercussions of the structure of trade between the United States and its trading partners, whether the United States has a competitive trade relationship with its trading partner, or whether trade is complementary.
This book offers practical policy prescriptions that promise to be of interest to trade policymakers and students of international trade policy.
Ka Zeng is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.


Author: Ka Zeng
ISBN-10: 0472113585
ISBN-13: 9780472113583
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Published: 02/03/2004
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.26w x 1.03d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2004 pg. 79