Regional integration proposals often require agreements between countries that differ in geographic size, resource endowments, transportation assets, technologies, and product quality. In this asymmetric setting, questions arise about the potential for mutual gains and the distribution of benefits among industries and workers in each country. This paper examines how regional integration between...

The Information Society An International Journal Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713669588 The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy, by AnnaLee Saxenian. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 432 pp. $18.95 paper. $27.95 cloth. ISBN 978-0-674-02566-0 paper/978-0-674-02...

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the discovery of gas and oil in Central Asia and Caucasia, it faced complex interests in the international political economy. These problems were mainly rooted in developing plans of the countries for increasing their influence in the area and also in Russia's connections with the Iranian and Turkish governments in the region. This paper investigat...

the globalization and urban development concepts are closely linked to each other. however, all cities around the world are not affected same by globalization, each one has its spatial and reciprocal international-local action. the international changes of economy, culture, and politics have huge effects on restructuring of cities around the world. the present study as a descriptive-analytical ...

In this paper, two dimensions are differentiated within the fragmentation process: a spatial and a functional one. On the one hand, due to fragmentation and industrial relocation, regional and national economies might be losing some internal linkages. This spatial fragmentation determines a decrease in the complexity of the production systems. On the other hand, outsourcing, as a form of functi...

his paper explores the connections between broad economic indicators in the New York metropolitan region and their national counterparts. It compares the performance of the region in recent years with that of the nation and assesses the importance of national and local developments for the area’s economy. A cursory examination of the regional economic indicators provides two contrasting views o...