Based on their ability to facilitate interdependencies across the borders of national and regional markets, multinationals enterprises (MNEs) act as the key drivers of world trade and investment activities. While recent global challenges additionally highlight the need to explain and assess the...

Verlagsinfo: Le mouvement de globalisation des économies favorise le développement des unions régionales. Parmi tous les accords existants, l'Union européenne fait figure de précurseur. C'est l'ensemble qui a poussé le plus loin le processus d'intégration institutionnel et économique à...

Given the uncertain outcome for regional trade arrangements and given the need for improved international competitiveness due to ongoing globalization it seems advisable to promote at a national level those policies which might help to enhance both integration into the regional and world...

Exploring the territorial politics of welfare / Luis Morena and Nicola McEwen -- Devolution and the preservation of the United Kingdom welfare state / Nicola McEwen and Richard Parry -- Welfare management in the German federal system : the emergence of welfare regions? / Jörg Mathias --...