American Trade Politics: Second Edition [Paperback]

I. M. Destler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1992

This is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the most influential and widely read analysis of the US trade policymaking system.

Awarded the American Political Science Association's Glady Kammerer award for the best book on US national policy, American Trade Politics examines how the US policymaking process enabled the United States to reduce its own import barriers and lead the world toward a more open trading regime. Since the 1970s, enormous political changes, compounded by unprecedented US trade deficits, have brought institutional erosion and some backsliding on trade policy.

This second edition summarizes the latest trade policy controversies and congressional activism with fresh material on such matters as the omnibus trade legislation of 1988 and the 1991 debate over fast track authority for negotiations with Mexico toward a North American Free Trade Agreement.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Praise for the first edition:

"Terrific. I loved it."

-Carla A. Hills,U.S. Trade Representative

"A highly compelling account of America's trade troubles and what can be done about them . . . As polished and as informative a book as is likely to be written on the subject."

-Jay Culbert,The World Economy

". . .the political-economic-historical Bible for [US trade policy]."

-J. David Richardson,Syracuse University

About the Author

I. M. Destler is a Professor at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Economics. He was formerly Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1977-83) and the Brookings Institution (1972-77) and Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University (1971-72) and at the International University of Japan (1986). He is the author or coauthor of nine books on American foreign policymaking and US-Japan economic relations, including Dollar Politics: Exchange Rate Policymaking in the United States (1989), Anti-Protection: Changing Forces in United States Trade Policy (1987), Our Own Worst Enemy: the Unmaking of American Foreign Policy (1984), and Coping with US-Japanese Economic Conflicts (1982).

Product Details

• Paperback: 471 pages
• Publisher: NYU Press; 2nd edition (August 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0881321885
• ISBN-13: 978-0881321883
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,769,189 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Useful and Informative, August 4, 2001

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This review is from: American Trade Politics (Paperback)

I found this volume useful and informative. It deals primarily with how Congress and the president shape American trade relations. It also considers the role of other domestic factors, such as interest groups. Destler explains various general approaches to the study of how American policy-makers arrive at a particualr type of trade policy. The main target audience is graduate and undergraduate students in public policy, American politics, and international political economy,