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Capital Politics: Creditors and the International Political Economy*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2017

Jeffry A. Frieden
Jeffry A. Frieden
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Political Science, University of California at Los Angeles
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Abstract

This essay analyzes the relationship between international investment interests and foreign economic policy. The first step and level of analysis looks at nation-states as the relevant actors, and claims that a country's international investment position tends to affect its international economic preferences in ways that are easily understood and anticipated. Countries' international asset positions often have a predictable impact on their policies toward international monetary relations, cross-border investment, and trade.The second step and level of analysis looks inside national societies at the international asset positions of various domestic groups. It argues that sectors with varying interests related to their international investment positions contend for influence over national policy. The economic circumstances of each sector lead to sectoral policy preferences with predictable implications for domestic bargaining over foreign economic policy. The general argument is applied briefly to a number of modern creditor countries and sectors, most prominently the United States after World War Two.

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Journal of Public Policy , Volume 8 , Issue 3-4 , July 1988 , pp. 265 - 286
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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