APEC: Regionalism, Globalism, or Obfuscation?

Between Regionalism and Globalism: European Union Interregional Trade Strategies

The collapse of multilateral trade talks under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle in November 1999 challenged international policymakers’ attempts to strengthen the institutional basis of the global economy. Yet these policymakers’ failure in Seattle did not attenuate the expansion of global market forces, nor the strong incentives for governments to seek to instituti...

Economic Integration and Open Regionalism in APEC: The Gains for U.S. Agriculture

The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum is made up of 21 diverse Pacific Rim economies (table 1), including the United States, and represents a significant regional market for U.S. food and agriculture trade. In FY 1997, the APEC region accounted for more than 60 percent of U.S. agriculture and food exports and 50 percent of imports. Over the past 10 years, APEC has accounted for pra...

Unity or Regionalism : The Nationalities Question

globalization, neo-regionalism: interaction or confrontation

in this article, thanks to phenomenological approach, an attempt is made to account the correlation between globalization and neo-regionalism. in the process, the finding of this scholar convinced him to reject antithetical correlation between the two. instead, he argues neo-regionalism is and ecopolitical current to adjust globalization. in the final analysis, it is argued both currents are re...

Meteorology as Infrastructural Globalism

This chapter explores the history of a global governance institution, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), from its nineteenth-century origins through the beginnings of a planetary meteorological observing network, the WMO’s World Weather Watch (WWW), in the 1960s. This history illustrates a profoundly important transition from voluntarist internationalism, based on shared interests, to...