American Unilaterism, Foreign Economic Policy And The‘Securitisation’ Of Globalisation

• Main Author: Richard, Higgott
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Working Paper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82327; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39821
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper traces the ‘securitisation’ of US foreign economic policy since the advent of the Bush administration. It does so with reference to US economic policy in East Asia. It argues that in the context of US economic and military preponderance in the world order, the US has been unable to resist...