Compare the Society-Centered and the State-Centered approaches to trade politics. What are the differences and similarities?

Post your reaction to the modules in week 2 and the corresponding reading. Reply to two of your peers’ discussion posts. You may start posting as soon as this forum and the corresponding module(s) become available; please post your discussion as outlined in the syllabus (200-500 words, etc.) and the two replies to your peers that are required. Viewing others’ discussions is turned off until you post your own. Choose from the question to reply to for your first post: Either

1.) “Compare the Society-Centered and the State-Centered approaches to trade politics. What are the differences and similarities?” Or

2.) “How do mercantilist/realist concepts of competitive advantage and strategic trade theory differ from the liberal concept of comparative advantage? How do historical materialists/marxists view the liberal free trade ideas and why?”