The New World Order

This volume covers the world of international business and economics. Topics include internationalism, regionalism and the multinational corporations.

Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Introduction. Introduction (K. Fatemi). Part II: Internationalism and the New World Order. From GATT to WTO (J.M. Lutz). The World Trade Organization: a progress report (S.D. Cohen). Labor standards as a trade issue (R.C. Shelburne). Reviving the trade debate (A.E. Eckes). Part III: Regionalism in the New World Order. Regional integration in Asia (M.E. Kreinin et al.). Open industrialization as a development strategy: the example of East Asia (C. Altomonte et al.). Expanding western hemispheric trade and integration (J.M. Patrick). The impact of EU membership on Portuguese exports of manufactures (A.P. Africano Silva). Changing patterns of foreign investment in the EU periphery and the EU enlargement (C. Corado). Privatization of the banking sector in transition economies: a comparative study of Hungary and Poland (K. Marton). Taxation and the location of foreign direct investment in Central Europe (D.P. Woodward et al.). Part IV: Multinational Corporations and the New World Order. The "Flying-Geese" paradigm: toward a co-evolutionary theory of MNC-assisted growth (T. Ozawa). Strategic alliances in the international airline industry: where has antitrust policy gone? (M.W. Pustay). Clarifying key market segmentation issues, domestic and international (G. Fennell et al.). References. Author index. Subject index.