EUROPE WITHIN THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC REGIONALIZATION
Abstract
The economists have thoroughly studied the relations between economic globalization and the regionalization of international trade exchanges. Geographers have started studying the process of regionalization in the 1990s. Nevertheless, most of their studies are based on the row value of trade exchanges of goods. This indicator is quite useful but it suffers from major shortcomings. For instance, it is biased by the size of the economies involved in these exchanges. In order to display a more nuanced picture of globalization, it is necessary to combine it with another indicator: the bilateral intensity of trade exchanges. Both indicators are applied to Europe in order to see to which extent it is concerned by the regionalization of the global economy, especially since the end of the cold war and the end of the ideological blocs.
About the Author
Yann RichardFrance
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France, 191, rue Saint-Jacques, 75005 Paris
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