TY - BOOK AU - Schirm,Stefan A. TI - Globalization and the new regionalism: global markets, domestic politics, and regional cooperation SN - 0745629695 (hb) PY - 2002/// CY - Cambridge, UK, Malden, MA PB - Polity Press, Blackwell Publishers KW - International economic relations KW - International economic integration KW - Globalization N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-228) and index; The weaknesses of regional integration theories -- The global markets approach in explaining cooperation -- Methodology and the empirical plausibility of the hypotheses -- Global financial markets -- Global production and foreign direct investment -- World trade -- Conclusion : crises, interests, and instruments -- Liberalization strategies in the single market project "1992" -- France -- Germany -- The United Kingdom -- The European level -- Liberalization strategies in the common market of the South -- Argentina -- Brazil -- Liberalization strategies in the North American Free Trade Agreement -- Mexico -- The United States -- Empirical results : preferences and the global markets approach -- Theoretical development of the global markets approach -- Implications for theories of regional integration and international relations ER -