Trading Blocs

Trading Blocs
Author: Kerry A. Chase
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2009-09-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 047202289X

Global commerce is rapidly organizing around regional trading blocs in North America, Western Europe, Pacific Asia, and elsewhere--with potentially dangerous consequences for the world trading system. Professor Kerry Chase examines how domestic politics has driven the emergence of these trading blocs, arguing that businesses today are more favorably inclined to global trade liberalization than in the past because recent regional trading arrangements have created opportunities to restructure manufacturing more efficiently. Trading Blocs is the first book to systematically demonstrate the theoretical significance of economies of scale in domestic pressure for trading blocs, and thereby build on a growing research agenda in areas of political economy and domestic politics. "Chase has written a superb book that provides us with an innovative and compelling explanation for the development of trading blocs." --Vinod Aggarwal, Director, Berkeley APEC Study Center, University of California, Berkeley Kerry A. Chase is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tufts University.

Britain and Germany in Europe, 1949-1990

Britain and Germany in Europe, 1949-1990
Author: Jeremy Noakes
Publisher: Studies of the German Historic
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780199248414

Anglo-German relations since 1945 have been generally cordial but subject to bouts of acute tension. This volume by leading historians from both countries examines major political issues and broader contacts between the two societies. It suggests that British perceptions have remained coloured by fears of German dominance, aggravated by the success of the Federal Republic and the relative decline of Britain in the post-war period.

East-West Economic Relations in the 1990s

East-West Economic Relations in the 1990s
Author: Gary K. Bertsch
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 313
Release: 1989-06-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349114650

This volume contains a number of analyses of the present global situation and provides a reasoned preview of likely macro-economic developments during the next decade in the relations between East and West. It is based on the 1988 11th Workshop on East-West European Economic Interaction.

Britain and Japan

Britain and Japan
Author: Kenneth D. Brown
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1998-03-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780719052910

A Familiar Compound Ghost explores the relationship between allusion and the uncanny in literature. An unexpected echo or quotation in a new text can be compared to the sudden appearance of a ghost or mysterious double, the reanimation of a corpse, or the discovery of an ancient ruin hidden in a modern city. In this scholarly and suggestive study, Brown identifies moments where this affinity between allusion and the uncanny is used by writers to generate a particular textual charge, where uncanny elements are used to flag patterns of allusion and to point to the haunting presence of an earlier work. A Familiar Compound Ghost traces the subtle patterns of connection between texts centuries, even millennia apart, from Greek tragedy and Latin epic, through the plays of Shakespeare and the Victorian novel, to contemporary film, fiction and poetry. Each chapter takes a different uncanny motif as its focus: doubles, ruins, reanimation, ghosts and journeys to the underworld.

The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600–2000

The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600–2000
Author: I. Nish
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2000-09-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1403919674

Volume II in this series of five volumes deals with relations between Japan and Britain in the poetical-diplomatic sphere from 1931 to the present day. From the political-diplomatic standpoint, it discusses the deteriorating relationship of the 1930s and leads on to the development of increasingly healthy postwar relations. The book consists of parallel essays from Japanese and British academic specialists.

The MIT Encyclopedia of the Japanese Economy

The MIT Encyclopedia of the Japanese Economy
Author: Robert C. Hsu
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 570
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262082808

The MIT Encyclopedia of the Japanese Economy was the first English-language encyclopedia to cover all major aspects of Japan's postwar economy. The second edition has been fully revised and expanded, and includes previously unpublished data as well as coverage of recent developments in the economy. The definitional entries concisely explain major economic concepts and include translations of Japanese economic terms and cross references to the longer topical essays. The 180 topical essays cover banks, financial systems, major industries, corporate groups, management practices, labor unions, international trade and investments, government economic policies, and more. They also include comprehensive statistics, American and Japanese views on economic relations between the two countries, and suggestions for further reading. A new index contains names of major companies.

The Europeanization of French Foreign Policy

The Europeanization of French Foreign Policy
Author: R. Wong
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2005-12-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230555012

This study examines the record of French and EU interactions with China, Japan and Vietnam in the areas of economic exchanges, political security relations and human rights to establish if there has been a trend of converging 'European' politics and collective European conceptions of interest and identity. It argues that the utility and impact of EU institutions on French foreign policy behaviour is more significant than is commonly imagined or admitted, and that foreign policies of EU member states tend over the long term towards convergence.