The national security argument for protection is perfectly valid and sound. It is perfectly logical under these conditions that protectionism can improve the nation's welfare. However, because of the theory of
After the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971,Footnote17the need for national regulatory autonomy became even stronger. The weakening of US economic leadership prompted a shift in US economic policies from support for free trade policies to trade protectionism.Footnote18The spillover effects ...
Limited differences appear for nationalism by ethnicity, although the study participants from the various minority ethnic groupings (a very small proportion of our overall sample) appear more predisposed to internationalism. With these differences, however, limited, there is an argument that the model ...
Their argument for drawing together critical geopolitical scholarship with the analytical and theoretical tools of political ecology builds on prior work operating in this conceptual space; for instance, work in political geography of the environment (Benjaminsen et al., 2017, Sundberg, 2009, Vander...
Postwar trade politics in the USA have exhibited intermittent periods of rising industry demands for protection from imports. At present, however, we do not fully understand why industry demands for protection rise and fall overtime. We argue that intermittent protectionism in postwar USA has been ...
above, however, health and safety concerns are frequently used as a pretext for raw economic protectionism. Requiring courts to examine the justifications for licensing mandates — and not just take the legislature's word for it — would likely result in many harmful rules being struck ...