This book addresses recent trends in regional integration projects and the strides that such projects are making on the road toward globalization, focusing on a range of economic projects, emerging supranational units, and possible implications for future trends.

The 1970s marked the end of the years in which the United States was the guarantor of a free world trade order, while Western Europe made efforts to catch up with the economic superpower. In this book, Giuseppe La Barca explains how the trade environment and trade policies in the United States...

Kennedy's initiative for a new Gatt Round: liberalising international trade and strengthening the Atlantic alliance -- The EEC's answer to the U.S. proposal: accepting the Round while defending its regionalism -- Devising the rule of the Kennedy Round (1963-1964) -- The regional crisis in a...