As a result of the emergence of the G20 as the self‐appointed “premier forum for interna‐ tional economic cooperation”, Asia’s expanded participation in G‐summitry has attracted considerable attention. As original G7 member Japan is joined by Australia, China, Indo‐ nesia, India and South Korea, this has given rise to another alphanumeric configuration of the Asian 6 (A6). Resulting expectat...

Within the framework of this publication, an attempt has been made to reconstruct concept ethnoculture in ethnographic concepts N.M. Yadrintseva. The article emphasizes that ethnocultural ideas are not always explicated rich journalistic and heritage founder Siberian regionalism. authors proceed from fact theoretical constructions regionalism were fruitful result his practical immersion ontolog...

Current literature on regionalism looks at non state actors in governance such as Foundations as an adjunct to the state, or in isolation. This paper, from the perspective of New Regionalism, argues that the emergence of informal networks of governance, made all the more powerful because of globalisation, play a major part in the strengthening of democratic mores in the region. It looks at an e...

This paper examines the welfare effects of the formation of a free-trade area (a set of countries that abolish tariffs among member countries but let individual member countries to set external tariffs). If a representative consumer has love-of-variety preferences, the welfare function exhibits supermodularity in external tariffs: when a country is constrained to charge lower tariffs on imports...