Multilateralising Regionalism: Spaghetti Bowls as Building Blocs on the Path to Global Free Trade
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عنوان ژورنال: The World Economy
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0378-5920,1467-9701
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9701.2006.00852.x