The debate over European integration is a central issue in the study of contemporary Europe. This book seeks to guide the student through the most important of the integration theories and academic literature on this vital topic. The reader starts with an expansive and wide ranging introductory essay which offers a clear overview and analysis of the shifting terms of the debate on European inte…
Each year, the Swiss mountain resort Davos is host to the meetings of the World Economic Forum. To this informal gathering of the most powerful business and financial magnates in the capitalist world are invited political leaders, cultural and religious organizations and even some trade unionists. The aim is to define global economic strategies.
The late summer headlines of a landmark peace accord between the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization stunned and delighted citizens of conscience from every walk of life and from all over the world. Here, at last, were the first glimmerings of harmony for a region whose bloody, intractable conflicts between Arab and Jew had outlived hot and cold wars alike to become a…
The Euroquake in prospect is an economic one. By 1993 Europe will be a bigger market than the US. By 1995 there is a real prospect of a single European currency. By 2000 a unified Germany will have become the economic and industrial engine of a new European Superstate. Daniel Burstein, who analysed the significance, of the new Japanese financial empire, in "Yen!", now turns his attention to Eur…
Traditionally in international relations, power and authority were considered to rest with states. But recently, in the light of changes associated with globalisation, this has come under scrutiny both empirically and theoretically. This book analyses the continuing but changing role of states in the international arena, and their relationships with a wide range of non-state actors, which poss…
Assesses how regional financial institutions can help developing countries, often at a disadvantage within the global financial framework, finance their investment needs, counteract the volatility of private capital flows, and make their voices heard.
Nation states, asserts the world-renowned business strategist Kenichi Ohmae, are dinosaurs waiting to die. In the profoundly important book Ohmae argues that not only have nation states lost their ability to control exchange rates and protect their currencies, but they no langer generate real economic activity.
The great processes reshaping our world today can be summed up by the term "globalisation". Together with the communications revolution and massive urbanisation, it is reshaping theorganisation of global space. It is illustrated by technological change, pronounced economic growth, the dominance of giant corporations, ever more open markets and universal consumption. Dramatic developments have o…
Presently, ASEAN stands ready to make a major step towards economic integration. This book looks at the issues involved in moving ASEAN towards a free trade area. It examines some indicators of gains and costs of integration and presents two quantitive analyses of the potential effects of integration on growth and trade in the region. The first, a partial equilibrium analysis, provides a disagg…
This handbook provides basic information on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), its organization and the various co-operation activities associated with it. The emphasis here is on economic co-operation. Although such information is available in many forms, it is mostly scattered in official documents and various literature on ASEAN. There is, thus, a need to provide the basic i…