caa a22 4500 386312575 CHVBK 20180307111553.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1988 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020818300007153 doi S0020818300007153 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020818300007153 Mastanduno Michael Trade as a strategic weapon: American and alliance export control policy in the early postwar period [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Mastanduno] The study of postwar American foreign economic policy recently has been informed by a dual conventional wisdom: that the American state is relatively weak domestically, yet powerful internationally. Domestic weakness refers to the ability of private actors to penetrate and influence the state; to the institutional fragmentation and decentralization of the state apparatus; and to the difficulties state officials encounter in extracting resources from domestic society and in achieving their policy preferences in the face of domestic opposition. International strength, on the other hand, refers to the high degree of resources controlled by the United States relative to other nation-states, and to the ability of state officials to translate those resources into influence over international outcomes. In the early postwar period, America's external strength more than compensated for its internal weakness, and enabled state officials to pursue effectively their primary foreign economic policy objective: the creation of a liberal international economic order, characterized by the free movement of goods and capital across borders and by stable exchange rates. Copyright © The IO Foundation 1988 International Organization Cambridge University Press 42/1(1988), 121-150 0020-8183 42:1<121 1988 42 INO https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818300007153 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818300007153 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Mastanduno Michael NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Organization Cambridge University Press 42/1(1988), 121-150 0020-8183 42:1<121 1988 42 INO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge