1. See J. E. Spero, The Politics of International Economic Relations (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1984) pp. 1–25;
2. Bruno S. Frey, International Political Economics (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984) pp. 1–12.
3. See Albert O. Hirschman, National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1945) pp. 3–81.
4. See Richard Rosecrance, The Rise of the Trading State: Commerce and Conquest in the Modern World (New York: Basic Books, 1986).
5. Kent Calder, ‘Japanese Foreign Economic Policy Formation: Explaining the Reactive State’, World Politics (July 1988) pp. 517–41. This basic theme has been discussed in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times for most of 1988 and well into 1989.