Regionalization and Globalization in the Modern World Economy: Perspectives on the Third World and Transitional Economies (Routledge Studies in Development Economics , No 12)

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. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of figures......Page 10 List of tables......Page 11 List of contributors......Page 14 Preface......Page 16 Globalization versus regionalization ALEX E.FERNNDEZ JILBERTO AND ANDR MOMMEN......Page 20 External pressures shaping regionalism: a critical assessment ANDR MOMMEN......Page 46 Central and Eastern Europe: catching up or marginalization in the European free trade zone? HANS VAN ZON......Page 73 Economic reform and new patterns of post-Soviet regionalism ANDREY S.MAKARYCHEV......Page 84 Preparing the Russian economy for world market integration VLADIMIR V.POPOV......Page 105 Regional economic integration in Sub-Saharan Africa PIET KONINGS AND HENK MEILINK......Page 147 The European Union and its expanding eastern and southern borders ALVARO PINTO SCHOLTBACH......Page 165 A regionalizing middle power: Turkey's role between Europe and Asia ZEHRA GAMZE ASLANCIK......Page 191 Morocco's economy between the Maghreb and Europe ANDR MOMMEN......Page 212 Regional integration processes in Latin America: Argentina and MERCOSUR MIGUEL TEUBAL......Page 249 The politics of open regionalism and neo-liberal economic integration in Latin America: the case of Chile and Mexico ALEX E.FERNNDEZ JILBERTO AND BARBARA HOGENBOOM......Page 270 Trade liberalization and economic integration in Central America OSCAR CATALN ARAVENA 287......Page 306 Association of the South-East Asian Nations' (ASEAN) Free Trade Area (AFTA): the changing environment and incentives BATARA SIMATUPANG......Page 326 External liberalization, regionalization and openness in Indochina's economic transformation CAROLYN L.GATES......Page 348 Index......Page 379 This collection explores the process of regionalization in the Pacific area, the Americas, Africa and Europe, and questions whether the world economy is characterized by increasing regionalization, rather than globalization This book 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