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What was the "battle in Seattle" over trade all about? You may know...but do your students? With John Rothgeb's concise text U.S. Trade Policy: Balancing Economic Dreams and Political Realities, your students will learn about international trade, the political tensions it rouses, and its historical roots. Rothgeb carefully traces the forces that affect U.S. trade policy's development and implementation, including: * the strategic and competitive international arena * policymakers' views on the value of trade * the influence of special interest groups * the impact of institutional rivalries

A cross-national design is employed to explore the association between direct foreign investment in agriculture, changes in the agricultural labor force, & political relationships for 84 underdeveloped societies in Latin America, Africa, & Asia. Evidence from the Conflict & Peace Data Bank for the period 1967-1978 indicates that in Africa, foreign agricultural investments are related to higher employment in the agricultural sector, which in turn is associated with lower levels of political protest. In Latin America, foreign agricultural investments are directly related to more protest, suggesting a xenophobic nationalist reaction to foreign penetration in the sector. There are no apparent relationships between these variables among Asian states. These results challenge the contention that economic disturbances in the agricultural sector are a fundamental cause of violent uprisings & rebellions. 5 Tables, 2 Appendixes, 59 References. Adapted from the source document.

This research investigates the effect of international forces upon domestic political conflict by examining the relationship between foreign investment and political protest in underdeveloped states. Three conceptions of the association between foreign investment and conflict are considered. The first two focus on foreign investment as creating conflict by exacerbating deprivation. The basic difference between these views centers around whether the effects are felt most in poorer or in richer societies. In general, scholars who maintain that deprivation occurs see it as resulting from the impact of a large foreign presence on the strength of the host government and on its increased use of repression. The third, or liberal, conception sees foreign investment as reducing conflict by enhancing resource availability. The findings from the cross-national analysis of a sample of underdeveloped countries indicate that a high level of foreign investment is associated with less conflict in poorer societies and with more conflict in wealthier countries. The increased conflict in wealthier states, however, is not a product of the effect of foreign investment on governmental strength and repression, as deprivation theorists argue.