Domestic politics and international relations in US-Japan trade policymaking : the GATT UruguayRound agricultural negotiations / Christopher C. Meyerson
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Contextual Two-Level Game Approach to Analyzing Trade Policymaking -- Domestic Politics and International Relations in US-Japan Trade Policymaking -- The GATT UruguayRound Agriculture Negotiations -- The US and the UruguayRound Agriculture Negotiations -- Japan and the UruguayRound Agriculture Negotiations -- US-Japan Trade Policymaking During the UruguayRound Agriculture Negotiations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Summary
To what extent do domestic politics affect the agreement reached in an international trade negotiation? In order to address this question, Christopher C. Meyerson develops an approach to analyzing the relationship between domestic politics and international relations in trade policymaking. This approach is used to analyze both American and Japanese trade policymaking and US-Japan trade negotiations, especially during the GATT UruguayRound agriculture negotiations between 1986 and 1994. Meyerson not only develops an innovative approach to the analysis of the relationship between domestic politics and international relations in trade policymaking, but also, using publicly available GATT documents and publications, US Congressional hearings and Japanese-language sources, provides a strong narrative description of the roles of the United States and Japan in the GATT UruguayRound agriculture negotiations
