Mediating Globalization by Andrew P Cortell

Mediating Globalization by Andrew P Cortell

Has globalization fundamentally altered international relations, producing a race to the bottom in which states compete for economic growth and development by adopting similar liberal economic strategies? Mediating Globalization challenges this increasingly dominant perspective, demonstrating that national governments often respond to global competitive pressures with more, not less, economic intervention. Using interviews, archival research, and secondary sources, Andrew P. Cortell explores the strategies adopted by the United States and Britain with regard to one of the world's most globalized sectors, the semiconductor industry. From the early 1970s through the mid-1990s, he argues, increasing globalization pressures in each country led them to more actively intervene in the evolution of their semiconductor markets, rather than assume a more marginal role. The empirical evidence, moreover, indicates that the two countries adopted similar responses, whether liberal or interventionist, as a consequence of similar domestic institutional incentives rather than constraints identified to emerge from globalization.

Andrew P. Cortell is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at Lewis & Clark College. He is the coeditor (with Susan Peterson) of Altered States: International Relations, Domestic Politics, and Institutional Change.

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ISBN 13	9780791464427
ISBN 10	0791464423
Title	Mediating Globalization
Author	Andrew P Cortell
Series	Suny Series In Global Politics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	2006-06-01
Number of pages	257
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