High-Tech Trade Wars
Subtitle: U.S.-Brazilian Conflicts in the Global Economy (Pitt Latin American Series)
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: July 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780822941798
Subjects: Capitalist or free market economies; International trade; Political science & theory; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Politics/International Relations; USA; International - General; International Relations - General; International Relations - Treaties; Brazil; Computer industry; Computer software industry; Foreign economic relations; Globalization; United States
Description: "Sara Schoonmaker uses the example of the computer technology industry to delve into one of the key political conflicts of our time: the construction of a free-trade regime determined to open markets around the world to global capital, and attempts by Latin American, African, and other governments to resist the process.".

"Presenting a multidimensional view of the globalization process, High-Tech Trade Wars focuses on Brazil's attempt to develop a local computer industry through development policy and the conflict between the United States and Brazilian governments over the U.S. movement to block such efforts."--BOOK JACKET.