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
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