American foreign economic policy since the second world war has been subject to various competing analyses. Gowan and Stokes indicate (see required readings for topic 10) three interpretations Which best fits the facts?
Mercantilism (the primacy of national self-interest), or
Liberal Multilateralism (the primacy of collective interest in a global open economy), or
Imperialism (a global order safe for transnational, especially American, capitalism but under American supremacy).
Arguments etc should come and be referred from given files.
