The growing importance of regional integration, particularly in the Triad of Western Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region, is not always regarded as positive, but is also criticized because of the dangers involved for free world trade. What effects on world trade are to be expected?...

The current problems of international trade can certainly not be solved by resorting to the arsenal of national trade policies. World-wide economic losses would be the inevitable result. Therefore the first set of tripartite talks between the "major trading powers", the USA, the EC and Japan,...

Referiert die transatlantischen Beziehungen und die neue Situation der USA im Verlauf der fortschreitenden europäischen Integration, kurz einbezogen werden auch die Auswirkungen auf die Weltwirtschaft und auf Japan. Die 3 Verfasser (es fehlt jede Angabe über sie und den Anteil, den sie an den...