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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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• Preface
• 1 Globalization versus regionalization
• 2 External pressures shaping regionalism: a critical assessment
• 3 Central and Eastern Europe: catching up or marginalization in the European free trade zone?
• 4 Economic reforms and new patterns of post-Soviet regionalism
• 5 Preparing the Russian economy for world-market integration
• 6 Regional economic integration in sub-Saharan Africa
• 7 The European Union and its expanding eastern and southern borders
• 8 A regionalizing middlepower: Turkey's role between Europe and Central Asia
• 9 Morocco's economy between Maghreb and Europe
• 10 Regional integration processes in Latin America: Argentina and Mercosur
• 11 The politics of open regionalism and neoliberal economic integration in Latin America: the case of Chile and Mexico
• 12 Trade liberalization and economic integration in Central America
• 13 Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (ASEAN)
• Free Trade Area (AFTA): the changing environment and incentives
• 14 External liberalization, regionalization and openness in Indochina's economic reform and transformation

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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.