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1 Transnat'l L. & Contemp. Probs. 81 (1991)
The United States Commitment to International Trade Law: The Role of a Declining Hegemon

handle is hein.journals/tlcp1 and id is 95 raw text is: THE UNITED STATES COMMITMENT TO INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW: The Role of a Declining Hegemon Jonathan C. Carlson* I. Introduction ................................................................................ 82 II. Hegemonic Decline and Effective Legal Order: The Trouble with GATT ............................................................ 86 A. Hegemonic Decline and the Need for Law in the Liberal Trade Order ................................................. 86 B. Can a Declining Hegemon Replace Itself with Law? The Problem of Reciprocity ................................................. 89 1. Reciprocity and Effective International Law ............... 90 2. Reciprocity and the GATT Legal System: The Trouble with GATT ................................................ 94 C. Summary: Reciprocity and the Declining Hegemon .......... 101 III. The Trade Policy of a Declining Hegemon ................................ 101 A. U.S. Trade Policy in the 1980s ............................................ 102 1. The New Protectionism in U.S. Trade Policy ............... 103 2. Aggressive Bilateralism and Section 301 ..................... 105 3. The Uruguay Round ...................................................... 111 B. Evaluating U.S. Trade Policy: The Role of a Declining Hegemon in the Promotion of International Legal Order.. 113 C. A Begrudgingly Positive Appraisal of U.S. Trade Policy ... 115 IV. Conclusion .................................................................................. 124 * Professor of Law, The University of Iowa College of Law. B.A. 1976, McGill University; J.D. 1979, University of Chicago. I would like to express my appreciation to Steven Kobal, my research assistant, for his many hours spent digging for obscure materials in dark corners of the library.

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