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"This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of regional integration in the contemporary Caribbean, challenging the value of the neoliberal ideology that permeates regionalism discourse. The book asks what value neoliberal regionalism holds for the Caribbean, when its economic goals of efficiency and competitiveness serve to actively marginalize small states within the global community. Presenting an alternative framework for assessing success, the book investigates how the Caribbean community (CARICOM) can confront new challenges and perform a more developmental function, centring economic transformation and a more democratic process. The book also explores long-standing challenges with implementing regional decisions at the national level and the absence of avenues for citizens to influence the direction of the integration movement. It explores these themes against the backdrop of the global pandemic and the climate crisis which underscore the fragility of Caribbean economies, their high levels of indebtedness, weak social security systems, and their marginality, Bringing together decades of research from one of the world's foremost scholars on the subject, this book will be essential reading for researchers of the Caribbean specifically, and for those with an interest in regionalism more generally, across the fields of political economy, international relations, history, geography, economics and global development"--

Leaving the vexing & profound political questions aside, some parameters for an appropriate discussion of issues pertinent to greater North American economic integration are offered. The costs & benefits of such integration are elaborated in terms of free trade, free capital flows, free movement of workers, & regulatory harmonization. It is noted that, in light of US concerns, economic integration is clearly connected to border security integration. It is contended that the key risk for Canada is the reduction of "border risk," meaning hassle- & cost-free access to US markets. Drawbacks to Canadian-to-US regulatory & procedural harmonization are considered, suggesting that not all US regulations fit the Canadian context & noting the diversity of Canadian provincial standards as problematic. Monetary union is argued to be feasible only after it is clear that North America is on track toward a single market for goods, services, capital, & labor, & highly dependent on the similarity (or not) of the Canadian & US industrial structures. J. Zendejas

This book analyses the South Asian preferential trade agreements with reference to the WTO jurisprudence. It offers a comprehensive analysis of the factors undermining economic integration in South Asia and recommends possible ways for confronting them.

One: the world economic environment of the socialist economic integration in the early and mid-seventies -- One: The new stage of the crisis of the capitalist world economy and the socialist alternative -- Two: Realistic perspectives of East-West economic cooperation -- Two. Contributions to the Theory of the International Division of Labour -- One: Internationalization of economic processes -- Two: Limitations to the measurement of intertwining -- Three: Advantages deriving from the division of labour -- Four: Character of the national economies and the field of gravitation -- Three: The Socialist Integration -- One: Eastern Europe before the socialist revolutions — the peripheral belt of the advanced West -- Two: Prehistory of the West-European economic region -- Three: The determining role of the economic policy of socialist industrialization in developing the present integrational requirements of Eastern Europe -- Four: The deviating character of the "Western" and the "Eastern" types of economic integration (the EEC and the CMEA) -- Five: The requirement of equalizing the development levels -- Six: Rearrangement of the advantages derived from the division of labour in the course of industrialization -- Seven: Basic features of the operation of the socialist integration -- Eight: The building stones of the socialist integration: the national economic strategies -- Nine: Harmonization of national economic policies: the basic mechanism of socialist integration -- Ten: Market systems at the service of economic policy coordination -- Four: The Basic Conditions of the Hungarian Economic Development Strategy -- One: The basic conditions of the Hungarian foreign-trade strategy -- Two: Possible innovative cores of the Hungarian economy -- Three: Some conclusions.