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The concept of globalization refers to the growing interdependence of countries, resulting from the increasing integration of trade, finance, investments, labor markets and ideas in one globalmarketplace. The most important elements of this process are the international trade and the cross-border investment flows. Economic globalization has increased the specialization of workers, while the companies compete in global markets. Even globalization has recently become a common topic in academic discourse, many economists focused, from the 1980s and 1990s, in addition to globalization, on regionalization - the growth of networks of interdependence within multinational regions of the world. The recent decades arecharacterized by the fact that the world trade grew faster than world output, which implies that an increasing share of world GDP crosses international borders. The trend is explained, mostly, by thesubstantially declining of the trade barriers during the same period, as a result of successive trade negotiation rounds under the auspices of the GATT/WTO, unilateral trade liberalization and regional tradeagreements. Even there are global connections between all the countries, the strongest political and economic integration is being created within a few specific regions of the world: Europe, North America and East Asia.

Achievements and shortcomings of the program begun in 1982. Political origins and goals of the regionalization effort.

Discussed is the process of regionalization as it unfolded in Russia, 1991-1993, contending that the conflict between Boris Yeltsin & Mikhail S. Gorbachev was not, in itself, responsible for the break-up of the USSR; rather, the fragmentation of the country into autonomous republics was a result of the weakening of Russian statehood that began in 1987/88 with the erosion of the Communist party's absolute power & the questioning of official ideology. Also implicated in the dismantling of the USSR & the development of regionalization is the emergence of local elites as key players in Russian politics. The positive effects & global consequences of regionalization are also discussed. W. Howard

This paper investigates China's economic growth potentials and limitation up to 2020 and recommends a trend of economic regionalization. A sustainable growing economy is a necessity for China's future stability. The growth sustainability of the Chinese economy depends essentially on its continued commitments to institutional reform and economic deregulation. China's relaxation of government intervention in economic activities has led and will be leading China to decentralize its central governmental authority over economic planning and control. This will consequently stimulate the emergence of regional economies in Mainland China. In the next two decades, there will likely be 10 regional economies with relatively independent industrial structures emerging in Greater China (or the Chinese Economic Area of Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and the Mainland) as a result of economic liberalization and decentralization. (J Contemp China/DÜI)

Political scientists have a long-standing interest in identifying regions which are defined in terms of political stability. That is also what we set out to do, and in the process we get to evaluate two alternative methods of regionalization which are based on different theoretical models. The two models are geared to the specific requirements of longi tudinal analyses and represent recent efforts at methodological improvements. In both cases, the regionalization is performed on the basis of the distances between the geo graphical units with respect to component scores obtained from principal components analyses of Swedish community-level data over time. In the first case, the principal components analysis is carried out on the correlation matrix generated on party-strength data cast as percentages from the local arena at different points in time; in the second case, the principal components analysis is performed on the residual matrix, which is obtained by correlating the election-year specific error terms or residuals generated by regressing the community-level party-strength data on a series of socioeconomic indi cators, such as class structure and degree of industrialization.

This contribution aims to stimulate a critical reflection about local development, with particular attention to the role of regionalization practices in the construction of territorial identity processes. It is believed that the identification of specific areas is essential in public policies that aim to promote local specificities, especially in reference to strong areas of excellent territorial capital, not properly valued. This is the case of the Upper Aniene Valley, the study area of my PhD research project, for which there is no shared regionalization, neither from the scientific world, no from the political - administrative one, and in which the construction of a shared territorial identity is hindered by the absence of training and information models that allow the people to know the territory where they live or work. In this contribution, after highlighting (in the introduction) the importance of regionalization processes in the social and political construction of space, the case study will be presented, underlining the difficulties encountered in the research and the methodology that is intended apply in the regionalization of the Aniene Valley. It is believed, in fact, that this operation is preliminary to any attempt to intervene in the territory.