Foreign Direct Investment in a Changing Global Political Economy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Foreign Direct Investment in a Changing World

   • Steve Chan

   Pages 1-6

3. Auto Bargaining in Canada, 1965–87

   • Kenneth P. Thomas

   Pages 7-24

4. Maquiladorization as a Global Process

   • Jeffrey A. Hart

   Pages 25-38

5. Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in East Asia: The Expanding Division of Labor and the Future of Regionalism

   • Kit G. Machado

   Pages 39-66

6. Industrial Upgrading and Multinational Corporations: A Bumpy Runway for Taiwan’s Aircraft Industry

   • Chi Huang

   Pages 67-83

7. MNCs and Developmentalism: Domestic Structures as an Explanation for East Asian Dynamism

   • Cal Clark, Steve Chan

   Pages 84-103

8. State or Market: The Development of the Ecuadorian Banana Industry

   • David W. Schodt

   Pages 104-126

9. Foreign Direct Investment in Eastern Europe: Harnessing FDI to the Transition from Plan to Market

   • Carl H. McMillan

   Pages 127-149

10. Foreign Direct Investment in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire

    • Susan McMillan

    Pages 150-165

11. Do MNCs Matter for National Development? Contrasting East Asia and Latin America

    • Steve Chan, Cal Clark

    Pages 166-187

12. Investment Dependence and Political Conflict in Developing Countries: A Comparative Regional Analysis

    • John M. Rothgeb

    Pages 188-218

13. Back Matter

    Pages 219-246

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This book examines foreign direct investment in a changing world economy. It offers case-studies of this investment in different national and industrial contexts. Firms and countries have encountered mixed results in using this investment to further their foreign leverage. Conversely, potential host countries have faced different opportunities and constraints in attracting or utilizing foreign capital for their development. Although some countries have been relatively successful, most do not appear to be well positioned to take advantage of the ongoing processes of globalization of national economies.

• East Asia
• Eastern Europe
• Europe
• foreign direct investment
• globalization
• political economy
• transition

• University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

  Steve Chan

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