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From: peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley)
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Subject: Economics and US Foreign Policy
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Date: Tue, 26-Jun-84 02:09:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 26 02:09:50 1984
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The economic rationale for US foreign policy (the US has to unfairly
exploit a number of countries to maintain its standard of living;  it is
necessary to ensure that these countries are kept under sufficient control
to continue this exploitation) that Sophie Quigley mentioned makes a lot of
sense, in a capitalistic, Machiavellian way.  The director Costa-Gravas,
admittedly biased, has the US ambassador to Chile giving this rationale
in his film "Missing" (which told the story of the US-supported coup in '72).
Further, trilateralism was, at least in the Carter era, a major influence
on foreign policy and it sees foreign policy as directly determined by
economic interests.  (I'm not being alarmist about trilateralism; I only
note that it exists as a strong foreign policy influence based on economics).

"Economics and US Foreign Policy" would be a great title for a book.  Has
anyone heard of such a publication?

p. rowley, U. Toronto