Among the many virtues of Thomas Zeiler’s Capitalist Peace, two stand out. First, the book offers a detailed, chronological account of the evolution of US foreign economic policy from the 1930s through the presidency of Donald Trump. Telling the story of the trajectory of US trade policy and the contested politics that produced the policy…
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H-Diplo|RJISSF Article Review 166: DuBois on Zeiler, “Projecting China”
Thomas W. Zeiler’s “Projecting China: Trade Engagement in Beijing’s Half Century,” chronicles the oscillations in US foreign economic policy for China from the Nixon to Biden administrations. Zeiler offers a focused study of a bilateral relationship predominantly through the lens of a multilateral free-trade theory known as the capitalist peace doctrine.[1] For nearly fifty years…