Power, Money, and Trade: Decisions That Shape Global Economic Relations

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Acknowledgements Note to Instructors Introduction: Themes and Goals Part I: Approaches to International Relations 1. Competing Theories and the Evolution of Paradigms 2. The Levels of Analysis - System-Level Arguments 3. Theories from the National or Domestic Level 4. Bureaucratic Politics 5. Theories Based on the Idiosyncratic Characteristics of Individuals 6. Ideas as Causal Factors Part II: The Politicization of International Economic Issues Introduction: The Interplay of Power and Wealth 7. The Politics of Trade 8. The Politics of International Monetary Relations 9. The Politics of International Investment Part III: Turning Points in Foreign Economic Policy Behaviour 10. Britain's Repeal of the Corn Laws 11. The Cobden-Chevalier Treaty 12. Sir John A. Macdonald and the Introduction of Canada's National Policy 13. The Failure of Caprivi's New Course: Imperial Germany Defects from the Free Trade Regime 14. Britain's Refusal to Retaliate on Tariffs, 1906-1911 15. The Reciprocity Election in Canada, 1911 16. Britain's Return to the Gold Standard After World War I 17. The Passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff 18. The Creation of the Bretton Woods Monetary Regime 19. South Korea Opts for Export-Oriented-Industrialization 20. The Collapse of the Bretton Woods Monetary Regime 21. Brazil's Responses to the Debt Crisis 22. Canada and the Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. 23. Japan, International Monetary Responsibilities, and Policy Coordination: The Louvre and Plaza Accords 24. Germany's Role in European Monetary Union 25. Mahathir, Financial Crisis, and Malaysia's Capital Controls Conclusion: Theories, Evidence, and the Evolution of the International Political Economy Glossary Bibliography Index