This is an extensively revised and updated version of a book that was originally published in
2007. In addition to bringing the text up to date in a rapidly changing region, there are …

Mainstream geographical economics propagates the free trade doctrine, presenting
capitalism as entailing, but capable of overcoming, uneven geographical development …

Long a focal point in the study of Geography, regions have become a major concern of
International Relations, and for some even its essence. Principle definitions and …

As the twenty-first century begins, significant changes are occurring in the way that services
and goods are produced and consumed. One of the key drivers of this change is information …

Over the years, geographers have developed a disturbing–even dysfunctional–habit of
missing out on important intellectual and politically significant debates, even those in which …

The definitions for'marginality'and'marginal regions' are vague and differ between academic
disciplines. Marginal regions could however be characterized as regions lying off …

Imagined Regional Communities provides an original approach to thinking about the
processes of regional integration. Focusing mostly on communities in Africa, Asia and Latin …

Empirical experiences from the European Union's (EU) economic integration, which has
been adopted as theory in regional economic integration studies, show that neighboring …

The concept of innovation systems has come to dominate the discourse on technological
innovation over the last two decades of research. This book is devoted to pushing at the …

This book aims to examine the effects of globalization and economic and political
transformations in those parts of the world which are now regularly referred to as' emerging …