Producing Security
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Commerce
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Competitiveness
Credibility
David Baldwin (historian)
Decentralization
Developed country
Eastern Europe
Economic efficiency
Economic globalization
Economic growth
Economic integration
Economic planning
Economic policy
Economic sanctions
Economics
Economist
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Export
Foreign direct investment
Free trade
Globalization
Great power
High tech
Incentive
International security
Internationalization
Investment
Investment Climate
Investor
John Mueller
Liberalization
Manufacturing
Mercosur
Military technology
Multinational corporation
North American Free Trade Agreement
Opportunity cost
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Princeton University Press
Regional integration
Research and development
Riordan Roett
Robert Gilpin
Seminar
Soviet Empire
Soviet Union
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Supply (economics)
Susan Rose-Ackerman
Technological change
Technology
Technology transfer
Telecommunication
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United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
University of Chicago
Wealth
World Bank
World economy
World Politics
World War II
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- ISBN 9780691130316
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 25 Feb 2007
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Scholars and statesmen have debated the influence of international commerce on war and peace for thousands of years. Over the centuries, analysts have generally treated the questions "Does international commerce influence security?" and "Do trade flows influence security?" as synonymous. In Producing Security, Stephen Brooks maintains that such an overarching focus on the security implications of trade once made sense but no longer does. Trade is no longer the primary means of organizing international economic transactions; rather, where and how multinational corporations (MNCs) organize their international production activities is now the key integrating force of global commerce. MNC strategies have changed in a variety of fundamental ways over the past three decades, Brooks argues, resulting in an increased geographic dispersion of production across borders. The author shows that the globalization of production has led to a series of shifts in the global security environment. It has a differential effect on security relations, in part because it does not encompass all countries and industries to the same extent.
The book's findings indicate that the geographic dispersion of MNC production acts as a significant force for peace among the great powers. The author concludes that there is no basis for optimism that the globalization of production will promote peace elsewhere in the world. Indeed, he finds that it has a net negative influence on security relations among developing countries.
Stephen G. Brooks is Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University, where his dissertation received the American Political Science Association's Helen Dwight Reid Award.
