The Wealth Weapon: Four Arguments About Multinationals

When President Carter responded to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by slapping an embargo on U.S. grain shipments to the U.S.S.R., he used "the wealth weapon" to defend American strategic interests and human rights, as authors Ben J. Wattenberg and Richard J. Whalen pro­pose in this book that breaks new ground in analyzing U.S. foreign pol­icy.Writing from their different per­sonal perspectives (as a liberal Demo­crat and a moderate Republican re­spectively), this pair of partisan ac­tiv...