Alice Landau investigates the confluence, magnitude and dynamics of globalization and regionalization, and highlights the integrative and disintegrative effects of both processes. She digs deep in to the processes and traces the inequalities embedded in their dynamics. The analysis is complemented by a detailed empirical investigation into the geographical distribution of trade, investments, capital and transnational corporations, which are cumulatively concentrated in a few highly developed and developing countries, thus limiting the development prospects for the majority of developing countries.…mehr
Alice Landau investigates the confluence, magnitude and dynamics of globalization and regionalization, and highlights the integrative and disintegrative effects of both processes. She digs deep in to the processes and traces the inequalities embedded in their dynamics. The analysis is complemented by a detailed empirical investigation into the geographical distribution of trade, investments, capital and transnational corporations, which are cumulatively concentrated in a few highly developed and developing countries, thus limiting the development prospects for the majority of developing countries.
ALICE LANDAU is Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science, University of Geneva. Her publications include: The Enlargement of the European Union: Issues and Strategies (with Victoria Curzon-Price and Richard Whitman), and Rethinking the European Union: Institutions, Interests and Identities (with Richard Whitman). She is guest editor of a special issue of the Journal of International Negotiation.
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List of Tables List of Graphs Portraying Integration and Fragmentation in the World Economy Today: An Introduction PART I: GLOBALIZATION Exploring Globalization Assessing the Differentiated Character of States The Stratification of Global Trade THE GATT/WTO: Instrumentalizing Globalization Foreign Direct Investment and the Global Economy: Why, How, and Where? The Transnational Corporations: Channelling Disparities The Globalization of Capital PART II: REGIONALIZATION IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Regionalization: Old Blends and New Incarnation Regional Integration Arrangements: Trading Blocs or Building Blocs? Conclusion Index
List of Tables List of Graphs Portraying Integration and Fragmentation in the World Economy Today: An Introduction PART I: GLOBALIZATION Exploring Globalization Assessing the Differentiated Character of States The Stratification of Global Trade THE GATT/WTO: Instrumentalizing Globalization Foreign Direct Investment and the Global Economy: Why, How, and Where? The Transnational Corporations: Channelling Disparities The Globalization of Capital PART II: REGIONALIZATION IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Regionalization: Old Blends and New Incarnation Regional Integration Arrangements: Trading Blocs or Building Blocs? Conclusion Index
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