Table of Contents:
  • Competitiveness : useful concepts, political slogan, or dangerous obsession? / David P. Rapkin and Jonathan R. Strand
  • Does the United States have an international competitiveness problem? / Stephen D. Cohen
  • Sources of competitive asymmetries between the United States and Japan / Iwao Nakatani
  • Ideology and competitiveness : the basis for U.S. and Japanese economic policies / Simon Reich
  • The pursuit of competitiveness in East Asia : regionalization of production and its consequences / Mitchell Bernard and John Ravenhill
  • The limits on hegemonic predation as a response to competitiveness problems : the United States and Taiwan / Cal Clark
  • Fairness, effciency, and opportunitism in U.S. trade and investment policy / Robert T. Kudrle
  • Alternative paths to competitiveness : U.S. trade policies in international air transport services and commercial class aircraft manufacturing / Vicki L. Golich
  • Ideas and foreign policy : the emergence of techno-nationalism in U.S. policies toward Japan / Masaru Kohno
  • Cooperating to compete : the European experiment / Wayne Sandholtz.