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100 _aBERGSTEN, C. Fred
245 _aOpen regionalism.
260 _c1997
520 _aTraces the origins and evolution of the effort to reconcile potential conflicts between globalism vs. regionalism via 'open regionalism'. Presents five definitions of 'open regionalism', and opines that, properly defined and implemented, it can enable APEC to simultaneously achieve global free trade by rolling all regional liberalisation initiatives into a global free trade agreement and thereby eliminating all preferential arrangements.
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