Globalization, New Regionalism, and the State

Measuring the globalization of cities from the new regionalism perspective

The study aims to analyze the export performance of countries and of cities within them to identify synchronized or unsynchronized movement between them. In the empirical part of the study, the measurements used to analyze the export performance of the countries included in the literature are applied to establish the export performance of a single city-Sakarya, Turkey. These measurements includ...

Trade Liberalization in the Americas: Are Regionalism and Globalization Compatible?

Fragmentation vs. Integration? Regionalism in the Age of Globalization

In the following, I will outline central hypotheses and results from an empirical project which focused on the influence of globalization on regionalist conflicts. To understand the connection between the two phenomena, globalization must be operationalised in a way that helps us identify aspects which could influence the state's capacity for territorial management as well as regionalist motive...

Fragmentation vs. Integration? Regionalism in the Age of Globalization

In the following, I will outline central hypotheses and results from an empirical project which focused on the influence of globalization on regionalist conflicts. To understand the connection between the two phenomena, globalization must be operationalised in a way that helps us identify aspects which could influence the state's capacity for territorial management as well as regionalist motive...

The New Regionalism and Policy Interdependence

Since 1990 the number of preferential trade agreements has increased rapidly. Our argument explains this phenomenon, known as the new regionalism, as a result of competition for market access. Exporters that face trade diversion because of their exclusion from a preferential trade agreement concluded by foreign countries push their governments into signing an agreement with the country in which...