The Liberal Illusion

by Barbieri, Katherine

• ISBN13: 9780472030767
• ISBN10: 0472030760
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-08
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr

Summary

The Liberal Illusion sheds light on an increasingly important question in international relations scholarship and the domain of policy-making-whether international trade promotes peace. By examining a broad range of theories about trade's impact on interstate relations and undertaking a set of empirical analyses of the trade-conflict puzzle, Katherine Barbieri provides a comprehensive assessment of the liberal view that trade promotes peace. Barbieri's stunning conclusions depart from conventional wisdom in international relations. Consequently, The Liberal Illusion serves as an important counterargument and a warning call to policymakers who rely upon trade-based strategies to promote peace, strategies that appear to offer little hope of achieving their goals. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Katherine Barbieri is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(16)
Theories of the Trade-Conflict Relationship	17	(26)
Investigating the Commercial Peace	43	(36)
Interdependence, Negotiation, and Escalation	79	(18)
Alternative Levels of Analysis: The Nation-State and the System	97	(24)
Conclusions	121	(18)
Appendix A. Notes on Trade Data	139	(10)
Appendix B. Major Power Trade	149	(8)
Notes	157	(6)
Bibliography	163	(14)
Name Index	177	(4)
Subject Index	181