Economic Discrimination and Political Exchange: World Political Economy in the 1930s and 1980s. (book reviews)

In the last two decades, the non-discrimination norm has come under challenge from bilateralism, regionalism, and conditional most-favored nation agreements. Under what conditions are these arrangements discriminatory or liberalizing? Working along quite different theoretical tracks Kenneth Oye and Beth and Robert Yarbrough have produced two excellent analyses of this crucial issue.

The Yarbroughs state at the outset that they are less interested in the determinants of liberalization per se than in the form it takes: unilateral, multilateral, bilateral or minilateral. To explain ...

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