National competitiveness in a global economy

Competitiveness : useful concepts, political slogan, or dangerous obsession? / David P. Rapkin and Jonathan R. Strand -- Does the United States have an international competitiveness problem? / Stephen D. Cohen -- Sources of competitive asymmetries between the United States and Japan / Iwao Nakatani -- Ideology and competitiveness : the basis for U.S. and Japanese economic policies / Simon Reich -- The pursuit of competitiveness in East Asia : regionalization of production and its consequences / Mitchell Bernard and John Ravenhill -- The limits onhegemonic predation as a response to competitiveness problems : the United States and Taiwan / Cal Clark -- Fairness, effciency, and opportunitism in U.S. trade and investment policy / Robert T. Kudrle -- Alternative paths to competitiveness : U.S. trade policies in international air transport services and commerical class aircraft manufacturing / Vicki L. Golich -- Ideas and foreign policy : theemergence of techno-nationalism in U.S. policies toward Japan / MasaruK