<p>"This is an important work that makes significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the literature of international political economy. Summing Up: Recommended."<br /> —<i>CHOICE</i></p>

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Global supply chain integration is not only a rapidly growing feature of international trade, it is responsible for fundamentally changing trade policy at international and domestic levels. Given that final goods are produced with both domestic and foreign suppliers, Ka Zeng and Xiaojun Li argue that global supply chain integration pits firms and industries that are more heavily dependent on foreign supply chains against those that are less dependent on intermediate goods for domestic production. Hence, businesses whose supply chain would be disrupted as a result of increased trade barriers should lobby for preferential trade liberalization to maintain access to those foreign markets. Moreover, businesses whose products are used in the production of goods in foreign countries should also support preferential trade liberalization to compete with suppliers from other parts of the world.Fragmenting Globalization uses multiple methods, including time series, cross-sectional analysis of the pattern of Preferential Trade Alliance formation by existing World Trade Organization members, a firm-level survey, and case studies of the pattern of corporate support for regional trade liberalization in both China and the United States. Zeng and Li show that the growing fragmentation of global production, trade, and investment is altering trade policy away from the traditional divide between export-oriented and import-competing industries.
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"This is an important work that makes significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the literature of international political economy. Summing Up: Recommended." —CHOICE
“Fragmenting Globalization proposes something that so far only a small, emergent literature has accomplished: to systematically investigate the preferences of firms regarding preferential trade liberalization. This is a major and timely contribution.”—Mark Manger, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780472054701
Publisert
2021-03-15
Utgiver
Vendor
The University of Michigan Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

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Om bidragsyterne

Ka Zeng is Professor of Political Science and Director of Asian Studies at the University of Arkansas.

Xiaojun Li is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.