transcend national frontiers,” which includes public international law, private international law, and “other rules which do not … category of “other rules” and their “private” character. There has, however, been a revolution in international law itself … since 1956, reflected in a proliferation of international institutions, international courts, treaties, and so-called “soft …

This article describes the development of international trade blocs world wide from the 1950s till 2010. We updated the … data on international trade flows and introduced a new trade bloc variable based on the intramax hierarchical clustering … influenced by geographical and political factors; after all, proximity matters. To explain how mechanism of globalization changed …