Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Evolving State
- 3 The Changing Nature of Welfare
- 4 Disaster and Redemption: 1930s and Bretton Woods
- 5 The Transformation of the Bretton Woods World and the Rise of a New Economic Order
- 6 The End of Bretton Woods and the Beginning of a New Global Trading Order
- 7 The Enablement of Global Economic Opportunity
- 8 Trade and Security
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - Trade and Security
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Evolving State
- 3 The Changing Nature of Welfare
- 4 Disaster and Redemption: 1930s and Bretton Woods
- 5 The Transformation of the Bretton Woods World and the Rise of a New Economic Order
- 6 The End of Bretton Woods and the Beginning of a New Global Trading Order
- 7 The Enablement of Global Economic Opportunity
- 8 Trade and Security
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Thesis:
Trade and Strategy – the two dimensions of the outer face of the State – are linked through a global trading order that functions in the context of post-modern Statecraft. In the twentieth century, the victors of war have created a system of trade that accords with their inner constitutional order. In the twenty-first century, these states need to join with emerged and emerging states to foster and develop the interloped and interdependent cross-border relationships born out of the Long War of the twentieth century.
We have argued that the international trade order should be designed to accord with the nature of Statecraft in each epoch, and that the victors of war in the twentieth century have established a system that accords with their internal constitutional order. The existence of a link between trade and security in the modern era is controversial. Nevertheless, we have claimed that an international trade system that accords with modern Statecraft should have been put in place in the twentieth century regardless of its immediate actual contribution to the democracies' security needs. When, in 1950, Robert Schuman made the declaration that unity was required to make war “not only unthinkable but materially impossible,” he squarely endorsed the premise that integration of the important resources of the day, coal and steel, would contribute to collective security. The “United States of Europe” that he foresaw arising after a long and tortuous road would bind their constituent states in a partnership that would prevent war.
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- The New Global Trading OrderThe Evolving State and the Future of Trade, pp. 186 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008