today, with the increasing trend countries towards globalization, regionalism is also considered and regional organizations have been formed in many parts of the world geopolitical.. one of the manifestations of regionalism are regional organizations that in the second half of the twentieth century as a means to achieve regional integration in geographic areas with different functions in the ec...

1687 Do the forces that regional integration arrangements set up encourage or discourage a trend toward globally freer trade? We don't know yet. Summary findings The literature on regionalism versus multilateralism is growing as economists and political scientists grapple with the question of whether regional integration arrangements are good or bad for the multilateral system. Are regional int...

this paper deals with the importance of regionalism in iran's foreign policy. some of the existing outlooks view the characteristics of iran's power structure and politics in such a way that make any security-political, economic and cultural coalition and cooperation difficult in the region. but the author holds that political, security and geopolitical changes in the middle east regi...

1. introduction from cultural and land point of view, national heterogeneity is the characteristic of many countries. so that the vast majority of countries are facing regionalism based on their width and number of population which sometimes they challenge the legitimacy of the government. because of its special geographical situation, iran has been the dwelling of people with various language ...

The 1990s witnessed the parallel forces of globalization and regionalization strongly at work. While seemingly contradictory, they are in fact complementary dimensions of market development. This background paper will focus on the latter, and its special dimension of regionalism; i.e., policy driven regional cooperation. Particular attention will be given to the recent advances and challenges i...

The new regionalism tends to emphasize the commonalities of central cities and their suburbs. Los Angeles County has surprisingly minor differences between central city and suburb—leading one to wonder why municipal alliances across jurisdictional lines have not been more prominent. The author tackles this anomaly by breaking L.A. County into 58 different areas and tracking demographic and econ...

The number of regional trade agreements has nearly doubled in the last four years. Interestingly, relatively small countries have put enormous effort into joining regional agreements with larger countries during this period. In this paper, we address the following question: why are small countries so eager to be a part of these agreements? We construct a general equilibrium model of a natural t...

The emergence of East Asian regionalism is arguably one of the most important developments in the international relations of Asia. The trend began in 1997, when the region was hit by a massive economic crisis. The crisis undermined the credibility of regional institutions that were developed within a sub-regional or Asia-Pacific basis, namely the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), ...