Robert Gilpin Quotes

Foreign policy today is economics.

China has concluded that trade trumps all.

The idea that free trade encourages global economic growth by enhancing productivity is taken as an article of faith by the three major schools of international political economy: liberalism, Marxism, and mercantilism

Local and national politics have now become irretrievably global because their economies are locked into the global system.

used as oil to smooth the troubled water of our aggressive commercial policy

It is vital for Russia to normalize relations with the rest of the world. You shouldn't isolate your economy

The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.

War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.

In a globalized world policies based on zero-sum games do not work.

It's not our business for the United States to sort out the other fellow's economic problems. We've got enough of our own.

Isolationism has been a calamity.

Foreign policy begins with domestic policy.

I have always favored withdrawing recognition from Russia.

Taking into consideration that we are involved in Russia's orbit, any coughing there will produce painful economic and political convulsions here.

Tariff policy is no longer a question of raising revenue or protecting domestic manufacturing. It is the executive's instrument of foreign policy.

National security must include international economics as it became clear that the U. S. economy was powerfully affective by economic policies in dozens of other countries.

You have to believe that trade with Cuba is wrong because it is communist, but trading with China and Vietnam is just dandy.

When it comes to trade, when it comes to standing up to countries like North Korea, when it comes to standing up to guys like Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump is not a conservative.

Trade is an integral part of our foreign policy.

You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.

Trade accords had been a staple of the post-World War II world, providing a mechanism for economic growth, development, and association with friends and allies, and a means of reining in would-be adversaries who otherwise would have little incentive to act with restraint.

When I think of the things that Trump has done, ironically, everything is sort of - we care so much about Cuba and the Iran deal. I think pulling out of TPP is just devastating.