The Art of Economic Persuasion

Positive Incentives and German Economic Diplomacy

Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, German Studies
Ebook : 9780472027330, 216 pages, 12 drawings, 5 tables, August 2010
Hardcover : 9780472109883, 216 pages, 13 drawings, 5 tables, 6 x 9, January 2000
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How the government and private interests in Germany cooperated to create friendly relations with Poland before the fall of communism

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Contents List of Figures          viiList of Tables          ixAcknowledgments          xiList of Abbreviations          xiii Part 1. The Theory and Tenets of Economic Persuasion1. Introduction          32. Institutional Structures and Linkages: Managed Foreign Economic Policy          253. Extracting Domestic Resources: Reward Power          46 Part 2. German-Polish Reconciliation: A Case Study of Applied Economic Persuasion4. Change through Rapprochement: From Isolation to Resolution          675. From Stabilization to Damage Limitation          876. From Ambivalent Adaptation to Normalization          105 Part 3. Conclusion7. The Utility of Economic Persuasion: A Reappraisal          137 Notes          163Bibliography          183Index          195

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Much has been written about a state's use of the threat of military force or economic sanctions to change the behavior of another state. Less is known about the use of positive measures such as economic assistance and investment as a means of influence. This study looks at the ways in which government officials use economic instruments for foreign policy gains. More specifically, it examines the means by which a government can enhance its efforts at economic persuasion by inducing domestic business trade and investing in the target nation. The author demonstrates the domestic conditions under which the state can use commercial economic incentives to achieve foreign policy goals, especially where these incentives are meant to induce cooperative behavior from another state. Using the process of German-Polish reconciliation in the 1970s and 1980s as a case study, The Art of Economic Persuasion, argues that complex institutional links between the German government and the German business community enabled the government to encourage commercial relations with Poland, which supported the government's policies.
With singular access to archives of business associations in Germany as well as numerous interviews with German and Polish officials, the author carefully retraces German foreign policy towards Poland in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Art of Economic Persuasion is a theoretical addition to the literature on international political economy and international relations. It will be of interest to specialists in international relations, foreign policy, and international political economy, as well as economists, political scientists, and historians of Germany, Poland, the United States, and Cold War relations.
Patricia Davis is Assistant Professor of Government and International Studies, University of Notre Dame.

Patricia Davis is Assistant Professor of Government and International Studies, University of Notre Dame.