National Power And The Structure Of Foreign Trade by Albert Hirschman
The book analyzes how the composition and patterns of a country’s foreign trade both reflect and shape its national power, arguing that what a nation exports and imports determines its strategic vulnerabilities, bargaining leverage, and policy choices; industrialized exporters of manufactures enjoy different forms of influence than commodity-dependent economies, and trade relationships can be used as instruments of coercion, alliance and economic development. Drawing on historical wartime and interwar examples, it shows how asymmetric dependencies, diversification or concentration of export structures, and the political uses of trade affect states’ autonomy and development strategies, thus linking economic structure directly to geopolitical strength.
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- 1945
- Nationality
- American
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- Original Language
- English
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