Regionalization and Globalization in the Modern World Economy
Perspectives on the Third World and Transitional Economies
Published on 7. May 1998
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-415-18192-1 (ISBN)
Description
This collection explores the importance of regionalization and globalization to the world economy, particularly questioning whether the world economy is characterized by increasing regionalization, rather than globalization. International contributors explore the processes in the Pacific area, the Americas, Africa and Europe and make an important contribution to current debates in development economics.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
725 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-18192-1 (9780415181921)
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Alex Fernandez has been a Fellow of the Universities of Valparaiso (Chile) and Barcelona. He was research assistant at the University of Amsterdam, where he is now employed in the Department of Political Science. Andre Mommen has been a Fellow at the University of Brussels, a lecturer at the Institute of Labour Problems, Brussels, and now lectures in political science at the University of Amsterdam.
Content
Preface 1. Globalization versus regionalization Alex E. Fernandez Jilberto and Andre Mommen 2. External pressures shaping regionalism: a critical assessment Andre Mommen 3. Central and Eastern Europe: catching up or marginalization in the European free trade zone? Hans van Zon 4. Economic reforms and new patterns of post-Soviet regionalism Andrey S. Makarychev 5. Preparing the Russian economy for world-market integration Vladimir V. Popov 6. Regional economic integration in sub-Saharan Africa Piet Konings and Henk Meilink 7. The European Union and its expanding eastern and southern borders Alvaro Pinto Scholtbach 8. A regionalizing middlepower: Turkey's role between Europe and Central Asia Zehra Gamze Aslancik 9. Morocco's economy between Maghreb and Europe Andre Mommsen 10. Regional integration processes in Latin America: Argentina and Mercosur Miguel Teubal 11. The politics of open regionalism and neoliberal economic integration in Latin America: the case of Chile and Mexico Alex E. Fernandez Jilberto and Barabara Hogenboom 12. Trade liberalization and economic integration in Central America Oscar Catalan Aravena 13. Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (ASEAN) Free Trade Area (AFTA): the changing environment and incentives Batara Simatupang 14. External liberalization, regionalization and openness in Indochina's economic reform and transformation Carolyn L. Gates