Business And The State In International Relations

Ronald W. Cox is assistant professor of political science at Florida International University and is the author of Power and Profits: U.S. Policy in Central America. He has also published articles on the political economy of food production, international trade, and U.S. foreign policy.

• Foreword: "Serious Business" -- Introduction: Bringing Business Back In—The Business Conflict Theory of International Relations -- Industrial Structure, Internationalism, and the Collapse of the Cold War Consensus: Business, the Media, and Vietnam -- The Military-Industrial Complex, Sectoral Conflict, and the Study of U.S. Foreign Policy -- Business Mobilization and the New Right: Currents in U.S. Foreign Policy -- Business Conflict and U.S. Trade Policy: The Case of the Machine Tool Industry -- Explaining Business Support for Regional Trade Agreements -- The Business of Strategy: The Political Economy of U.S. Trade Policy Toward the USSR, 1945–1975 -- Business Conflict and the Shadow State: The Case of West Africa -- Winners and Losers in the Latin American Debt Crisis: The Political Implications -- International Relations Theories: Approaches to Business and the State -- Business Conflict and Theories of the State