In fact, one of Bill Clinton's most effective fund-raisers in 1992 was Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, then head of the Wall Street investment giant Goldman Sachs. Under the leadership of former Connecticut Congressman Tony Coelho, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee turned into a big-time money machine and full-time Wall Street presence, starting in the late 1980s. Since business - which is traditionally pro-Republican - is the greatest potential source of funds for the media advertising that can make or break candidates, Democrats have had to 'follow the money' and step up their efforts to win corporate support. Greatly enhancing the New Democrats' power has been the skyrocketing costs of political campaigns. In the years to follow, many politicians and analysts credited these free trade policies with sparking unprecedented peace and prosperity in the noncommunist world - further reinforcing free trade's legitimacy and popularity. By the end of the war, a strong bipartisan consensus in favor of multilateral trade liberalization had been produced by the determination not to repeat the mistakes of the 1930s, the overwhelming supremacy of American industry and technology, and the emerging perceived need to win or aid cold war allies by unilaterally opening United States markets. Internationally, protectionism was blamed for the Great Depression (and ultimately World War II). Domestically, nationalizing forces, such as the continuing spread of manufacturing to the south and the creation of national cultural tastes and economic markets by movies and radio, started to flatten sectional differences. In some instances, these accommodations may take the form of modification of the principle of laissez-faire.'ĭuring that decade, powerful domestic and international developments began to rival sectionalism as a determinant of trade politics and policy.

Yet to the extent that different regimes continue to be different, they will have to accommodate each other in certain ways. Indeed, in this increasingly interdependent world, many aspects of different national economies need to be harmonized. Eisuke Sakakibara, a vice minister in Japan's powerful Ministry of Finance, provided an unusually comprehensive statement of this position in his 1993 study, Beyond Capitalism: The Japanese Model of Market Economics: 'Taking pluralistic position that capitalism can differ across national borders and according to various historical and cultural backgrounds, our views on the world economy and world trade should be transformed as well. Efforts are under way to strike the right balance between benefiting from globalization's efficiency-enhancing effects and promoting the equally valid noneconomic goals set by all human communities. Policymakers and analysts alike seem to recognize that their challenge entails not simply promoting or stopping globalization, but ensuring that its terms serve specific local, national, and regional interests.

The British Empire, driven by Adam Smith's free trade and by its loss of profits, responded with military intervention to force the Qing dynasty into signing the unequal treaties: the Treaty of Nanking and the Treaty of Tianjin.Elsewhere around the world, where mixed economic systems and the difficult trade-offs they require are more openly acknowledged, the complexity of globalization seems more apparent.

Įxamples of foreign military intervention include the First Opium War (1839–1842) and Second Opium War (1856–1860) in China Qing dynasty tried to stop the British smuggling opium into coastal parts of China. In Japan, Abenomics was a form of intervention with respect to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's desire to restore the country's former glory in the midst of a globalized economy. Multilateral interventions that include territorial governance by foreign institutions also include cases like East Timor and Kosovo, and have been proposed (but were rejected) for the Palestinian territories. Interventionism is 'governmental interference in economic affairs at home or in political affairs of another country.' A government with a foreign policy of interventionism is one that would oppose isolationism. For the Argentine regulation, see Federal intervention.

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