Tag: free trade

H-Diplo | RJISSF Roundtable 16-39 on Palen, Pax Economica

May 19, 2025May 16, 2025 By Jamie Martin, Martin Conway, David Ekbladh, Sandrine Kott, Francine McKenzie, Marc-William Palen

Few conflicts have shaped modern mass political debate and mobilization more than the rivalry of free trade and neomercantilism. Yet the intellectual history of this conflict is underdeveloped. Marc-William Palen’s Pax Economica offers a major addition to a small yet growing body of scholarship on the intellectual history of trade in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries…

H-Diplo | RJISSF Roundtable 15-46 on Zeiler, Capitalist Peace

June 10, 2024May 28, 2024 By Charles A. Kupchan, Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson, Francine McKenzie, Marc-William Palen, Tom Zeiler

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…