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International Organization /INO Additional services for International  Organization: Email alerts: Click here Subscriptions: Click here Commercial reprints: Click here Terms of use : Click here Conclusion: domestic structures and strategies  of foreign economic policy Peter J. Katzenstein International Organization / Volume 31 / Issue 04 / September 1977, pp 879 ­ 920 DOI: 10.1017/S0020818300018701, Published online: 22 May 2009 Link to this article: /abstract_S0020818300018701 How to cite this article: Peter J. Katzenstein (1977). Conclusion: domestic structures and strategies of  foreign economic policy. International Organization, 31, pp 879­920 doi:10.1017/ S0020818300018701 Request Permissions : Click here Downloaded from /INO, IP address:  on 13 Oct 2012 Conclusion: domestic structures and strategies of foreign economic policy Peter J . Katzenstein An inventory of the objectives and instruments which characterize the differing political strategies of six advanced industrial states in the international economy yields three groups of states: the two Anglo-Saxon countries, mercantilist Japan, and the states of the European continent. Corresponding differences exist in the distinc- tive elements of domestic structure : the coalition between business and the state and the policy networks linking public and private sectors. An historical explanation of these differences is most appropriate. In the future, stresses in the relations between business and the state and contradictions between ruling coalitions and organized labor may lead to changes in political strategies. At no time since the late 1950s did the advanced industrial states jointly confront a threat as serious as the one in October 1973. The oil embargo and the ensuing price increases aimed at the core of their industrial econom