Redefining Critical Industry: A Comparative Study of Inward FDI Restrictions in China and the United States

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dc.contributor.authorZhao, Can
dc.contributor.supervisorWu, Guoguang
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-28T22:31:37Z
dc.date.available2015-08-28T22:31:37Z
dc.date.copyright2015en_US
dc.date.issued2015-08-28
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractInternational political economy scholarship largely focuses on the motivations and determinants of FDI flows and their effects on economic wellbeing, stability and peace. An overlooked question, however, is the restrictions of inward FDI. Extant research widely regards national security and economic security as the justifications for FDI restriction. This is an oversight because there is a broad overlap in conceptualizations of national security and economic security. In this thesis I study the phenomenon of the use of the concept “critical industry” to justify FDI restrictions. I investigate eight cases of restricted FDI transactions occurred in China and the United States between 2005 and 2012, and the relevant institutions and practices of both countries. This study argues that the protection of critical industry is the key driver of inward FDI restrictions and that the security of critical industry is better understood to protect individual industries, defense-sensitive industries, critical infrastructures, and industries pertaining to regime-security.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6600
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectPolitical economyen_US
dc.subjectFDI transactionsen_US
dc.titleRedefining Critical Industry: A Comparative Study of Inward FDI Restrictions in China and the United Statesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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