"Three trends have dominated the political economy of integration during the last two decades: globalization, economic nationalism, and regionalization. This book explores comparative regional integration, focusing on both intra-regional integration and relations among regions in the context of...

The expert contributors shed critical light on how significant developments are impacting on the global system. In particular, they consider emerging forms of global governance, and how the Asia-Pacific as a region, individual countries such as China, Japan, South Korea and the US, and regional...

The tragedy of Europe / Winston S. Churchill -- The Schuman Declaration / Robert Schuman -- Preambles to the Treaties of Rome -- A ferment of change / Jean Monnet -- A concert of European states / Charles de Gaulle -- Preamble to the Single European Act -- A family of nations / Margaret Thatcher...