THE ROUTE TO JAPAN'S VOLUNTARY EXPORT RESTRAINTS ON AUTOMOBILES:

AN ANALYSIS OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S DECISION-MAKING PROCESS IN 1981

Stephen D. Cohen

Professor, School of International Service

American University

Working Paper No. 20


Prepared for

The Conference on

"Power and Prosperity: Linkages between Security and Economics in US-Japanese Relations

Since 1960"

Organized by

The National Security Archive

and

The Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.

Institute of the Americas, UCSD

La Jolla, California

March 14-16, 1997

The U.S.-Japan Project

Director: Dr. Robert A. Wampler

The National Security Archive

1998


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