Asian countries are said to be on their way towards regionalism in the last decade as EU was born in Europe and NAFTA came into being in North America. There are currently more than 30 FTAs under working on among Asian nations. The dazzling network of FTAs makes it worthwhile to outline the underlying structure of the on going trading bloc in East Asia and to evaluate the potential effects of d...

Increasing economic integration has been one of the major forces driving the world economy's impressive growth over the last fortyfive years. Today, however, more than at any time since World War 11, the future of the world trading system is in doubt. Ironically, just as the Soviet Union, Eastern ~ u r o ~ e , and many developing countries rush to join the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade...

The stabilisation through regional and multilateral cooperation within the framework of the European Union is the topic today. These terms are all part of standard political discourse in South East Europe, often accompanied by description of abundant initiatives by various regional or multilateral organisations. What is more often lacking is an explicit idea about how these institutional initia...