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International relations and domestic structures: Foreign economic policies of advanced industrial states

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Peter J. Katzenstein
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Peter J. Katzenstein is a member of the Department of Government at Cornell University. For their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper I would like to thank Peter Gourevitch, Gerhard Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, Stephen D. Krasner, David Laitin, Theodore J. Lowi, Joseph S. Nye, Richard N. Rosecrance, Robert W. Russell and Lawrence Scheinman. I have also learned much from a discussion of this paper by the Harvard Faculty Seminar on “State and Capitalism since 1800” and by the Junior Faculty Research Seminar of the Cornell Government Department.

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Recent writings on problems of the international economy have focused attention primarily on changes in the international system. This paper attempts to show that foreign economic policy can be understood only if domestic factors are systematically included in the analysis. The paper's first part groups the recent literature into three paradigms which distinguish between three international effects. The second part offers a comparison of the differences between a state-centered policy network in France and a society-centered network in the United States. The third part of the paper combines the arguments of the first two and analyzes French and American commercial, financial, and energy policies as the outcome of both international effects and domestic structures. These case studies show that domestic factors must be included in an analysis of foreign economic policies. The paper's main results are analyzed further in its fourth part.

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