forces might drive them, and what the WTO might do to guide them. Two facts form the point of departure: 1) Regionalism is … multilateralisation of regionalism. The paper presents the political economy logic of trade liberalisation and uses it to structure a … building blocs – whereby offshoring creates a force that encourages the multilateralisation of regionalism. Finally, the paper …

Economic thinking on regionalism has traditionally focused on the Vinerian question: Would a nation gain from joining a … trade bloc? Since 1991, "Big Think Regionalism" considers the broader question of regionalism’s impact on the world trading … system focusing on two questions: Does spreading regionalism harm world welfare? and Does regionalism help or hinder …

Using a detailed data set at the tariff line level, we find an emulator effect of multilateralism on subsequent …

of regionalism and of worldwide democratization since the late 1980s. …

liberalization occurred, why trade liberalization took the form of reciprocity combined with multilateralism, why the liberalization …

is that multilateralism is too cumbersome for contemporary trade issues. This paper proposes a very different answer …. Recent regionalism is caused by two idiosyncratic events multiplied by a domino effect. The triggering events <196> the US … by larger regional trading blocs. In the meantime regionalism appears to spread like wildfire. …