{"product_id":"the-empire-trap-9780691155821","title":"The Empire Trap","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S. involvement in the empire business began, how American foreig\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[T]his is a very good book--cogently argued, detailed, and well-written.\"--Politics Reader \"The Empire Trap represents an important addition to scholarship on twentieth century U.S. foreign policy. Maurer convincingly demonstrates that American investments in foreign countries were repeatedly threatened by expropriating governments and that in countless instances the United States utilized a variety of methods to protect those investments or to ensure fair compensation when they were lost.\"--Jeffrey Malanson, Enterprise \u0026amp; Society \"It is impressive not only for its scope ... but also for its attention to detail in each of the cases presented. Most important, Maurer's analysis brilliantly captures a big picture that challenges much of the conventional wisdom showing how a small number of private investors draw government into one international quagmire after another because it was the only way they could have their property rights enforced.\"--Alan Dye, EH.Net \"This is an exemplary work of historical social science, shedding light on many debates within the international relations literature.\"--Michael J. Lee, Perspectives on Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii  One Introduction 1  Two Avoiding the Trap 25  Three Setting the Trap 58  Four The Trap Closes 89 * Box 1. The Mexican Exception 137  Five Banana Republicanism 148  Six Escaping by Accident 188  Seven Falling Back In 245  Eight The Empire Trap and the Cold War 313 * Box 2. Ethiopia and Nicaragua 347  Nine The Success of the Empire Trap 350  Ten Escaping by Design? 387  Eleven The Empire Trap in the Twenty-first  Century 433  Notes 453  Index 537","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403793965399,"sku":"9780691155821","price":37.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691155821.jpg?v=1730484562","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-empire-trap-9780691155821","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}