Економіка, управління та адміністрування (Dec 2020)
State foreign trade policy as an object of study in the scientific works of Ukrainian and foreign researchers
Abstract
The relevance of the research topic is related to the growth of publishing activity in the field of foreign trade policy and is based on the analysis of such publications in the world's largest abstract database Scopus. The aim is to characterize the areas of research in the field of public administration of foreign trade, which is implemented on the basis of the method of bibliometric analysis of research in the international scientometric database Scopus. The analysis allowed to outline the subject-object sphere of foreign trade policy in different periods during 1974–2020. The positive trend of increasing the number of publications in the Scopus database on the subject is confirmed by the fact that research in public administration intensified in the 80s of the twentieth century. In general, during the study period, most articles were published in such fields as economics, econometrics, finance, social sciences, which accounts for almost half of research in the field of foreign trade policy. Research in 1974–1979 is devoted to the disclosure of the problems of foreign trade and the formation of foreign policy of the world in the field of environmental sciences and earth and planetary sciences. Instead, modern scientific research (2016–2020) deals with such issues as: supply chain management, participation of countries in global value chains, digitalization of trade, trade wars, accompanied by risks of foreign trade. The connections between the main key terms encountered in the research topic are analyzed and 6 clusters are formed (world trade policy; foreign trade of the EU and the USA; consequences of foreign trade on the socio-ecological and economic world system; strategic directions of foreign trade development; WTO principles and the policy of the participating countries; the policy of protectionism (tariff and non-tariff methods). It is determined that the task of the public sector is to form effective mechanisms of state management of foreign trade activities on the basis of identifying problematic issues in the field of foreign trade and applying the results of foreign policy.
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