| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學法教分處 === 政治學研究所 === 91 === The dispute over trade in semiconductor was the main trade friction between Japan and United States in the 1980s, and the semiconductor agreement in 1986 can be viewed as the turning point of U.S. trade policy in post-war period. It represented the emergence of “managed trade” or “agreesive unilateralism”. This thesis aims to explore the determining force and dynamics behind this agreement, trying to explain why U.S. had promoted this kind of neo-protectionism in semiconductor sector in spite of its free trade rhetoric. We find that the main reason was the decline of US economic power, or more specifically, the competitiveness of US semiconductor sector. Thus to some extent we confirm the proposition of hegemony stability theory which argues that the when the hegemon declines, it will choose closure of trade regime. But we also find that other factors, such as interest groups and bureaucratic ideology, play important roles.
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