This book explores the growing list of non-tariff trade barriers raised by the US, EU and Japan and assesses the prospects for significant trade liberalization. The author examines the liability of global free trade through a review of the complaints that these three countries raised about each...

Rise of law in foreign trade politics -- Antidumping clashes with the United States -- Legality in safeguard disputes with China -- The burgeoning intellectual property agenda -- Investment rules in preferential trade arrangements -- The expansion of aggressive legalism

The Japanese challenge to the American neoliberal world order -- Alternative explanations -- Identity and intention framework -- Who and what is normal in the history of the world economy? : Marxism, economic liberalism, and developmentalism -- Binarization of economic development identities :...