Intellectual Property and U. S. Relations With Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand (Southeast Asia Program Series)

Intellectual Property and U. S. Relations With Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand (Southeast Asia Program Series) List Price: $12.00 Offer Price: USD $11.96 See Latest Price & Discount Author Elisabeth Uphoff Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 1991-02-01 ISBN 0877271240 Publisher:Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publications Editorial Reviews: Product Description That too often ambiguous commodity, intellectual property, was declared one of the primary goals of foreign economic policy in the mid-1980s by the United States. In the resulting tangle of economic politics and policies, issues of compliance, effectiveness, domestic pressures and foreign policy, and U.S. stature all arose. Intellectual property protection, as Uphoff claims, allows insight into both international trade policy and the economic costs and advantages of this process. Case studies focus on each of the ASEAN governments' decisions on how to respond to American pressure over copyrights and patents. Research, based on existing publications and interviews with government officials and scholars, is both timely and illuminating.