BETWEEN THEORY AND HISTORY: THE UNITED STATES TRADE POLICY IN THE 1980s

• Grant number: 07/01902-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2008
• End date: March 31, 2009
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Principal Investigator: Tullo Vigevani
• Grantee: Filipe Almeida do Prado Mendonça
• Host Institution: Centro de Estudos de Cultura Contemporânea (CEDEC). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

We want to understand in this project the interaction between ideas and institutions as well as the consequences of this relation for the transition toward aggressive unilateralism in the US Trade Policy. Based in this, we will examine the demands for free trade, fair trade, strategic trade and protectionism in the process of elaboration of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 by the US Congress. This Trade Act was considered one of main institutional landmarks of US trade defense. More specifically, we will consequently examine the impacts that such demands had had in the field of the economic ideas, and in the institutions, as well as its practical effect in the confrontation of the economic difficulties suffered by the United States during the end of the decade of 1980 and beginning of the decade of 1990.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MENDONÇA, Filipe Almeida do Prado. Entre a teoria e a história: a política comercial dos Estados Unidos na década de 1980. 2009. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências. Marília Marília.