Politics and Trade Cooperation in the Nineteenth Century

• Part I. Cooperation and Variation: 1. International cooperation across time and space; Part II. Domestic Politics and Trade Policy: 2. Conceptualizing and measuring trade policy; 3. A political support theory of trade policy; 4. State capacity, fiscal concerns, and the tariff; 5. Political institutions and tariffs; Part III. Political Support and Trade Cooperation: 6. The trade agreements database; 7. Political support and trade treaties; 8. Variation in trade cooperation; 9. Ratification and trade treaties; Part IV. Norms and Cooperation: 10. The most-favored-nation norm; 11. The spread of the trade treaty network; 12. Clustering negotiations in time; Part V. Conclusions: 13. Explaining trade cooperation in 1815–1914.

Review of the hardback: 'While political scientists and other scholars have studied the post-World War II trade regime in detail, we still know little about the basis of trade cooperation in the past. In this important volume, Robert Pahre sheds new and fascinating light on the nineteenth century trading system. His work will be of great interest to scholars working in many fields and disciplines.' Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College