Introduction -- Thesis detailed -- Transparency -- Concepts -- Goals and outcomes -- Membership -- More members? -- Logic -- Traditional agricultural market access -- Traditional industrial market access -- Non-traditional market access -- Exposing the forgotten chapter -- Copyright battles --...

From the welfare state's origins in Europe, the idea of human welfare being organized through a civilized, institutionalized and uncorrupt state has caught the imagination of social activists and policy-makers around the world. This is particularly influential where rapid social development is...

"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...

In this paper, we argue that antecedents of modern corporate social responsibility (CSR) prior to the Industrial Revolution can be referred to as “proto-CSR” to describe a practice that influenced modern CSR, but which is different from its modern counterparts in form and structure. We...