ABSTRACT

America's Trade Follies controversially argues that the global political economy is hardening into regional blocs, in North America, Latin America, Europe and the Asia Pacific, organized around a powerful economic base and suspicious of each other. Bernard K. Gordon's masterful analysis shows that this division threatens American prosperity by limiting US access to the world's richest and largest markets, and endangers US security by dividing the globe along economic and political lines. Provocative, original and stimulating this book is essential reading for all those interested in American politics, trade and international political economy.

chapter 1|11 pages

America’s folly

The rise of regional blocs

chapter 2|22 pages

America’s trade in its global context

chapter 3|37 pages

Regionalism in Europe

A model for the past or the future?

chapter 4|36 pages

The Western hemisphere

America’s blurred vision

chapter 5|38 pages

Will the geese fly?

chapter 6|18 pages

The high price of folly