Measuring the importance of regionalism in international trade is desirable but difficult. The number of regional trade agreements (RTAs) reported to the WTO or the proportion of world trade which is between countries in an RTA are frequently cited as evidence that regionalism is growing at an...

This paper examines the international economic policies of the eastern European and Soviet Successes States in the early 1990s which provide one of those wide-open windows of opportunity when powerful vested interests are not lobbying for retention of an existing tariff structure. Moreover, the...