U.S. Regionalism: Evolution of an Era

The US Trade De cit , the Decline of the WTO and the Rise of Regionalism

This paper argues that the growing US trade de…cit has caused the decline of the WTO and the rise of regional trade agreements. A country in de…cit prefers to retain market power against countries with a large surplus. Multilateral cooperation restricts its choice. This notion is formalized in a three-country game in which countries negotiate multilaterally and, if that fails, bilaterally. The ...

regionalism in globalization era a case study: guam regional organization

today regional integration has become the main source of concern for governments. in the era of globalization different parts of the world have formed regional groupings. realizing their geopolitical, geostrategic and geo-economic status, these regions have regional structures with various degrees of regionalism. geopolitical region of the caucasus is considered as one of the geopolitical regio...

Modern Architecture in PolAnd After the coMMunist erA. A new wAy forwArd through A criticAl regionAlisM

the new culture of Poland is very much reflected in the design of many of its new buildings that have been completed since the political and economic changes in 1989. the architecture of Poland appears to have lurched from an inappropriate socialist modernism that was so horridly imposed during the communist era to an equally inappropriate post modernist hegemony in the new enterprise culture. ...

The evolution within us.

The B-cell immune response is a remarkable evolutionary system found in jawed vertebrates. B-cell receptors, the membrane-bound form of antibodies, are capable of evolving high affinity to almost any foreign protein. High germline diversity and rapid evolution upon encounter with antigen explain the general adaptability of B-cell populations, but the dynamics of repertoires are less well unders...

Regionalism and Growth