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

Introduction /Khosrow Fatemi -- Internationalism and the New World Order -- From GATT to WTO / James M. Lutz -- The World Trade Organization: A Progress Report / Stephen D. Cohen -- Labor Standards as a Trade Issue / Robert C. Shelburne -- Reviving the Trade Debate / Alfred E. Eckes -- Regionalism in the New World Order -- Regional Integration in Asia / Mordechai E. Kreinin, Shigeyuki Abe, Michael G. Plummer -- Open Industrialization as a Development Strategy: The Example of East Asia / Carlo Altomonte, Richard Bolwijn, H. Peter Gray -- Expanding Western Hemispheric Trade and Integration: The Case of Chile / J. Michael Patrick -- The Impact of EU Membership on Portuguese Exports of Manufactures / Ana Paula Africano Silva -- Changing Patterns of Foreign Investment in the EU Periphery and the EU Enlargement / Cristina Corado -- Privatization of the Banking Sector in Transition Economies: A Comparative Study of Hungary and Poland / Katherin Marton -- Taxation and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment in Central Europe / Douglas P. Woodward, Robert J. Rolfe, Paulo Guimaraes, Timothy Doupnik -- Multinational Corporations and the New World Order -- The "Flying-Geese" Paradigm: Toward a Co-evolutionary Theory of MNC-Assisted Growth / Terutomo Ozawa -- Strategic Alliances in the International Airline Industry: Where Has Antitrust Policy Gone? / Michael W. Pustay -- Clarifying Key Market Segmentation Issues, Domestic and International / Geraldine Fennell, Joel Saegert, Robert J. Hoover.