Trade and American Leadership

Craig VanGrasstek teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Massachusetts, and has previously taught at American University's School of International Service, Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, the World Trade Institute, and the University of Barcelona. He is the author of The History and Future of the World Trade Organization (2013).

Part I. Introduction and Overview: 1. The domestic diplomacy of trade and the paradoxes of power and wealth; 2. The theory and practice of the Anglo-American hegemonies; 3. After hegemony: power, wealth, and trade policy since the Cold War; Part II. The Domestic Diplomacy of Trade: 4. The domestic diplomacy of trade agreements; 5. The expanding scope of trade and the contagion of conflict; 6. Washington slept here: how Trump caught politicians napping on trade; Part III. Trading with Allies: 7. Defence vs. opulence: sea power and law in Anglo-American hegemonies; 8. The sun also sets: the Japanese challenge to the US auto industry; 9. Canada and the domestic diplomacy of US trade policy; Part IV. Trading with Adversaries: 10. The strategy and domestic diplomacy of sanctions; 11. Russo-American relations and the paradox of sanctions; 12. Trading with the NME: the Chinese challenge to US hegemony; Part V. Trading with Developing Countries: 13. The strategy and domestic diplomacy of trade preferences; 14. The elusive integration of the Americas; 15. War, peace, and trade in the Middle East; Part VI. Trade and Trump: 16. Power and wealth in the Trump administration and beyond.