American Trade Politics and the Triumph of Globalism

This insightful book offers an analysis of the ways in which U.S. leadership in the arena of global trade has affected American democracy and the domestic political regime, turning on its head the traditional focus on democracy's impact on global trade leadership. The reorganization of constitutionally-granted policymaking authority from the US Congress to the president and further, through international trade agreements, to the GATT/WTO, has resulted in the "triumph of globalism."