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U.s. Economic Regeneration Policies And Japan's Accession To The Gatt 1955 (1948)

Posted on:2003-12-18Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:F DengFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360062485935Subject:History of the world
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According to the fundamental tenets of historical materialism, using comparative method on archive files in many countries and research method concerning multi-subject as basic means, and making use of multi-subject knowledge on History, International Politics, International Economics and International Economics Law, this dissertation researches American economic recovery policy toward Japan centering around pushing for Japan' s accession to GATT in a thorough-going way.This dissertation explores American economic recovery policy toward Japan as a whole, especially, demonstrates that the main emphasis of American economic recovery policy toward Japan lies in propelling Japanese accession to GATT. The dissertation focuses mainly on American diplomatic policy toward Japan' s accession to GATT and expounds that the U.S. made efforts with the purpose of promoting Japan' s accession to GATT on domestic and international sides. On the one hand, the U.S. removed the obstacles made by the protectionism group in the Congress by all means; on the other hand, it stubbornly struggled with the international opposing forces led by U.K., the U.S. and Japan finished the crucial tariff negotiations ultimately. The purpose of these discussions is to emphasize the internal relations between American Cold War Strategies and American economic recovery policy toward Japan and between Japanese accession to GATT and American economic recovery policy toward Japan, and the complexity of the international factors on Japan's economic recovery. At the same time, it gives prominence to the relations between domestic politics and international politics and the conflict between the bloc interest and the national interest.This dissertation is composed of six sections. The first section is the introduction, which describes the present situation of the academic research about "the problem of America and Japan postwar economicrecovery" briefly and indicates that the important role of the U.S. playing in Japanese economic growing is nearly neglected in the monographs and theses which research Japan Postwar economic development up to now. Although discussing the problem, some books do not research American economic recovery policy toward Japan centering around pushing for Japan' s accession to GATT thoroughly. Furthermore, the academic value, theoretic and realistic roles of the study are introduced in this section. The main body of the dissertation is from the second section (the first chapter) to the fifth section (the fourth chapter), which firstly discusses the evolvement of American economic recovery policy toward Japan and argues that the economic recovery policy toward Japan was the inevitable result which the United States pursued her global containment strategies, with the changes of the international situation and the economic conditions in Japan, the U.S. regarded Japan' s accession to GATT gradually as the most important objective of the economic recovery policy toward Japan; secondly explains in detail that the U.S. fought up against the Old Guard in Congress persistently in order to win the authorization from Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (RTAA) so as to conduct the crucial tariff negotiations with Japan, and emphasizes mainly that the Executive had to seek for the balance between the national interest and oversea interest because of the strong forces of the domestic protectionism group, but made efforts to make foreign economic policy which is favourable to the latter because of the need of the Cold War strategies; thirdly analyzes the basic contents of U.S.-Japanese tariff negotiations briefly and summarizes the results of the negotiations, and considers that under a large number of concession which the U.S. made in the negotiations, the Japanese could change American political and strategical interest into the Japanese trade interest and became the main winner; fourthly researches mainly British diplomatic policy towards Japan' s accession to GATT and American reaction to the policy and influence on it, and American ro...
Keywords/Search Tags:the Cold War, the economic recovery, GATT, reciprocal trade, tariff negotiations
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