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Chapter 8 - International Trade Flashcards

1
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What amounts to a sixth of the total economic activity in the world?

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International trade

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Scholars of international political economy (IPE) study the politics of what?

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international political activities- especially trade, monetary relations and multinational corporations

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____ are the most important actors in IPE, but not as important as in __________.

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States & international security

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True or false: Actors in IPE tend to act in their own interests.

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True

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What is reflected in the trade regimes that have been established around the world, and the idea of trade in general?

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Reciprocity

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What is the role of states?

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Trade,
Monetary Policy,
Fiscal Policy,
MNC
Economic Integration
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What are the two major approaches within IPE?

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Liberalism and Mercantilism

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What generally shares with realism the belief that each state must protect its own interests at the expense of others?

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Mercantilism

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Mercantilism emphasizes what?

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relative power

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What matters when it comes to Mercantilism?

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its position relative to rival states

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In mercantilism the importance of economic transactions lies in their implications for their what?

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military

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When it comes to mercantilism, economics should serve what?

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politics

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13
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Creation of wealth underlies what?

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state power

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14
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Where and when did mercantilism achieve prominence?

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several hundred years ago in Britain, but it declined in the 19th century

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15
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Favorable balance of trade is what?

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positive balance of trade versus negative balance of trade

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16
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What shares the belief in the possibility of cooperation to realize common gains?

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Economic liberalism

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What holds that by building international organizations, institutions, and norms, states can mutually benefit from economic exchanges?

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Economic liberalism

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True or false: In Economic liberalism, it holds that by building international organizations, institutions, and norms, states can mutually benefit from economic exchanges.

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True

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What are two theories of economics and also ideologies that shape state policies?

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Liberalism and mercantilism

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Liberalism works better in _____ than in _____

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Microeconomics than in macroeconomics

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21
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The term “___” has come to embody the dominance and inequity of the application of power by the great powers at the expense of the middle and lesser powers.

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neoliberal

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22
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Two commodities of great importance in the world are ____ & ____.
two examples are ___ & ____

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oil and cars

ex. Saudi Arabia and Japan

23
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3 examples of political interferences in markets

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  • World markets
  • Sanctions
  • Autarky
24
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Governments can apply ____ against economic interactions of certain kinds or between certain actors

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What is one example in which sanctions have backfired?
U.S. and Russia - pipeline
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What is Autarky?
Self-reliance – avoid trading and instead try to produce everything the state needs itself
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Two countries that are an example of Autarky?
Albania and China's Cultural Revolution
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What refers to when states try to manipulate international trade to strengthen one or more domestic industries and shelter them from world markets?
Protectionism
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Protection of domestic industries from what?
International competition
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Protection of industry vital to what?
National security
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Protection provides what kind of effort?
Defense effort to ward off predatory practices by foreign companies or states
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Protection discourages what?
Imports
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What are subsidies to a domestic industry, which allow it to lower its prices without losing money?
Tax breaks
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True or false: Protectionism can have both positive and negative effects on an economy
True
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What links the world across space?
Information technologies
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What process based on free trade is shaping the international economic agenda?
Global integration
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What is central to trade regimes?
Wold Trade Organization
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What is a global, multilateral IGO that promotes, monitors, and adjudicates international trade?
World Trade Organization
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What is this an example of? Most favored nation (MFN) concept: trade restrictions imposed by a WTO member on its MFN trading partner must be applied EQUALLY to all WTO members.
Reciprocity
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What is an exception to reciprocity within the WTO?
Generalized System of Preferences - Trade concessions to third world states to help economic development
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Most international trade is governed by what?
Bilateral and Regional Agreements
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Bilateral trade agreements are what?
Reciprocal arrangements to lower barriers to trade between two states
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Groups of neighboring states agree to remove the entire structure of trade barriers and adopt a common tariff toward states that are not members of the agreement (customs union). This refers to what?
Regional free-trade areas
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What do you call an association of producers or consumers, or both, of a certain product – formed to manipulate its price on the world market?
Cartels
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Consumers do not usually form cartels, but the major oil-importing states formed their own organization. What is this organization?
The International Energy Agency (IEA)
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What agency coordinates the energy policies of major industrialized states?
International Energy Agency (IEA)
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Economic agreements between states depend strongly on what?
The reciprocity principle for enforcement
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What complicates the enforcement of equal terms of trade?
Differing interpretations of what is "fair"
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What is dumping?
Retaliation aimed at offsetting the advantage enjoyed from goods imported at prices below the world market
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Trade cooperation easier to achieve under what?
Hegemony
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What is transforming not only trade, but money, business, integration, communication, environmental management, and the economic development of poor countries?
Globalization
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What are things that have happened to evolve the world economy?
- Technological innovation - Great Depression and resultant protectionist policy - Keynesian economics - WWII - Soviet bloc - centrally planned economy
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What have been some resistances to globalization?
-Growing nationalism -Competition from low-wage countries in the global South -Human rights Environmental issues -Benefits of free trade more diffuse than the costs

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