Transnational Economic Cooperation and the Nation State

by Kummel, Gerhad

• ISBN13: 9780880339872
• ISBN10: 088033987X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

This book presents a study on the economic relations between interwar Germany and the United States. As the political agenda of Nazi Germany grew to diverge from the agenda of the U.S. and other democratic countries, an important question began to evolve. How far could this political and economic compatibility, or incompatibility, be stretched? And what would such compatibilities hold for the contemporary "global economy", and, presumably, global democracy, between nation states?

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	vi
Preface	xi
Basic Theoretical Considerations	1	(12)
A Model for International Relations	1	(1)
Approaches to the Subject Under Investigation and the Methodology	2	(5)
International Political Economy as Theoretical Mental Equipment	7	(2)
The Theoretical Problem of the Relation of Transnational Politics to National State, or: Transnational Politics as a Strategy for Peace?	9	(4)
German-American Trade Relations Between the Wars	13	(20)
Germany, the United States, and their Importance in World Trade	13	(3)
Foreign Trade between Germany and the US between the wars	16	(17)
From Cooperation to Confrontation: The Development of German-American Opposition	33	(60)
Compatibility of German-American Interests in the 1920s and Loosening of the German-American Relationship during the World Economic Crisis	33	(2)
Growth of German-American Antagonism in the 1930s	35	(17)
The Development of German-American Dualism in Foreign Trade Policy from 1934 to 1939	52	(36)
Analysis of the Antagonism in Trade Policy	88	(5)
German-American Business Relations Between the Wars: The Automobile Industry	93	(46)
General Motors and Opel	96	(16)
Purchase of Opel by GM	96	(3)
Opel and GM in the Depression	99	(1)
Opel and GM in the 1930s: Transnational Cooperation in a Difficult Political Atmosphere	100	(7)
Opel in the World War: The End of Transnational Cooperation	107	(1)
Transnational Relations as an Instrument of Politics and Diplomacy: Roosevelt and Mooney's Trip to Germany in 1940	108	(4)
Ford in Germany	112	(27)
The 1920s: Ford's Start on the German Market	112	(2)
FMCAG during the Depression	114	(2)
Intra-Company Relations Between FMC and FMCAG and National Socialist Germany	116	(17)
The War and its Consequences for Intra-Company Relations	133	(6)
Selected Bibliography	139