Trade, Foreign
Trade, Foreign.This essay on foreign trade as an instrument of foreign and defense policy is divided into three sections: Wartime provides an overview of the role of foreign trade in U.S. strategic and economic policies in wartime; Trade Restrictions examines the use of embargoes and economic sanctions as instruments of U.S. security policy against hostile nations; and Neutral Trade explores America's assertion of commercial rights when it was a neutral nation affected by other countries' wars.
Trade, Foreign: Wartime
The drive for American national economic security has existed since 1776, and foreign trade has played a strategic and economic role in U.S. policy. The interaction of commerce and defense was necessary and obvious. Historians have long argued over the relative importance of economic and strategic concerns in foreign policy, with...
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