Geo-Economic Competition and Trade Bloc Formation

United States, German, and Japanese Exports, 1968-1992

Bibliographic Data

ID4040643
AuthorsJohn O''Loughlin (0000-0002-9053-7885), John Ο’loughlin (University of Colorado Boulder), John O'Loughlin, Luc Anselin (0000-0003-1076-2220, West Virginia University)
Year1996
Volume72
Issue2
Pages131
Publication date1996-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEconomic Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/144263
OpenAlexW2314001819
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited24

In the post-cold war world, geo-economic competition is thought to be replacing geopolitical competition as the focus of great power relations. The cold war years corresponded to the period of U.S. hegemony in world trade and relations in the Western bloc. With the shrinking of the power gap between the United States and the other two great trading states, Japan and West Germany, as well as increased competition for trade shares, a division of the world economy into trade blocs has been anticipated. An examination of export shares for the three great powers with 114 partners in the past quarter century, 1968 to 1992, indicates there is not much evidence for the hypothesis of a world devolving into trade blocs. While regional links have intensified somewhat between the United States and its neighbors in the Americas and between West Germany and its European Union partners, Japan is broadening and deepening its export linkages with extraregional partners. Fears of the formation of blocs in the world trading system are greatly exaggerated

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