商品簡介
In light of the intertwining logics of military competition and economic interdependence at play in US-China relations,Trading with the Enemy examines how the United States has balanced its potentially conflicting national security and economic interests in its relationship with the People's Republic of China over the past forty years. To do so, it investigates a strategically sensitive yet under-explored facet of US-China relations, namely the making of American export control policy on defense-related technology to China.
Export controls stand at the frontier between military considerations (the need to maintain military pre-eminence by avoiding the transfer of sensitive technologies to potential competitors) and economic interests (job creation, exports, and economic growth). Hugo Meijer shows that although the United States has been the major proponent of stringent controls on defense-related technology exports since the end of World War II, its ability to enforce such controls has decreased due to the global diffusion of technology, China's growing capabilities, and domestic pressures to liberalize Sino-American economic relations. As well he traces the evolution of a new coalition of American actors starting in the early to mid-1990s -- what he terms the Run Faster coalition -- which he argues realigned the nexus between national security and economics in the making of US-China policy.
Meijer draws upon a body of newly declassified documents from the National Security Archives and interviews with current and former government officials, representatives of the high-tech and arms industry and consulting firms, and members of major think tanks in the US and China. By focusing on how states manage the competing security and economic interests at stake in a bilateral relationship,Trading with the Enemy sheds light on the evolving nature of interstate competition in a globalized economy.
作者簡介
Hugo Meijer is Lecturer in Defense Studies at King's College, London.
