A European political-economic space that embraced Japan
The international context of the conventional-tariff network, ca .1892–1914
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12528440 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Toshiki Kawashima (0000-0002-9715-8845, University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 612-635 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Review of History Revue européenne d histoire (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-7486 • E-ISSN: 1469-8293 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13507486.2018.1442419 |
| OpenAlex | W2877771367 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 41 |
This article sheds new light on the economic globalization in Europe and Asia from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, with a special focus on the role of bilateral commercial treaties and import tariffs. Countries concluded a number of treaties in those days, and they came to form an extensive ‘conventional-tariff network’. This mechanism contributed to the stabilization of international economic-political space by facilitating reciprocal tariff concessions. The extent of this conventional-tariff network was both temporally and geographically larger than has been assumed. First, as the recent scholarship has shown, the network, which emerged in the 1860s, survived the political turbulence of the 1890s and spanned Central European countries such as Germany and Italy by the early 1910s. Second, the network spread outside Europe and reached East Asia by the 1910s, when Japan renegotiated its commercial treaties and became a new member of the network. The network embodied so strong a mechanism of self-maintenance based on the coordination of economic interests that it was resilient to a major political shock such as the First World War. While the tariff systems in Europe and in East Asia around 1900 have been separately discussed in the literature, this paper focuses on the treaty partnership between these two areas to show how the mechanism of the conventional-tariff network enabled the countries to cooperate for mutual concessions on international trade
Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Economic globalization · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Focus (optics · Geography · Globalization · International trade · Political science · Politics · Tariff · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law
System der Handelspolitik
Once Within Borders
Negotiating with Imperialism
Tariffs and income
The Challenges of Globalization
The Japanese Empire
The Transformation of the World
The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-1922
Global history and the spatial turn
Conflicting Identities
Free trade, British hegemony and the international economic order in the nineteenth century
Hegemony and trade liberalization policy
Why were Latin America's tariffs so much higher than Asia's before 1950
The Ties that Divide
The Rise of Free Trade in Western Europe, 1820–1875
Tariffs and Growth in the Late 19th Century
The Anglo-French Treaty of Commerce of 1860, and the Progress of the Industrial Revolution in France
The Most-Favored-Nation Treatment in Japan’s Treaty Practice during the Period 1854–1905
Commodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750
IV. The Cobden-Chevalier Commercial Treaty of 1860
Peaceful Conquest
Bilateral Treaties and The Most-Favored-Nation Clause
The Unconditional Most-Favored-Nation Clause and the Maintenance of the Liberal Trade Regime in the Postwar 1870s
The hegemon's dilemma
Conceptualising transnational spaces in history
Effects of Bilateralism and the MFN Clause on International Trade
The Imperialism of Free Trade
Explaining nineteenth-century bilateralism
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |