U.S. Imperialism and Rights — CORRIGENDUM

Human Rights in US Foreign Policy

US Firm Exports and Intellectual Property Rights

How do intellectual property rights (IPR) policies a¤ect international trade? In this paper we consider two of the central results from the model of Lin (2013) (i) that IPR reforms should expand the range of goods exported to a country through the extensive margin of trade and (ii) …rms with more newly developed products should be more sensitive to IPR policies than other innovative …rms. Build...

Commercial Imperialism?

We exploit the recent declassification of CIA documents and examine whether there is evidence of US power being used to influence countries’ decisions regarding international trade. We measure US influence using a newly constructed annual panel of CIA interventions aimed at installing and supporting leaders during the Cold War. Our presumption is that the US had greater influence over foreign l...

Gender, culture and imperialism

Recent years have witnessed a small avalanche of critical historical work on British imperial culture across the social sciences and not least within geography. The inspiration behind the critical interest in empire, knowledge and power was undoubtedly Edward Said’s groundbreaking and provocative Orientalism. Waves of debate have permeated throughout the social sciences and humanities in respon...

Imperialism and the Communist International