Military origins of indusrialisation and international trade rivarly

The purpose of this book is to explain the political motivation for industrialization and why this leads to irreconcilable international trade conflicts.

The State has been involved in every instance of European industrialization, its acute awareness of military needs being a major influence on its partici pation. The same is true of Japan where industrialization was engendered by the State's efforts to create a domestic defence industry during the third quarter of the nineteenth century.

The book argues that the real causes of international trade disputes in manu facturing hinge on the division of the international political system into competitive nation states. The insecurity of existence in the international political system prompts latecomer countries to pursue the goal of industrial trans formation; military security, on which the distribution of power and the status of countries are predicated, is heavily dependent on the level of industrialization.