New trends and developments in the process of regionalization world еconomy

Authors

  • Aleksey Evgenievich Likhachev Ministry of Economic Development of the RF
  • Andrey Nikolaevich Spartak Russian Foreign Trade Academy

Keywords:

Regionalization, regionalism, regional trade agreements, WTO, integration

Abstract

The article deals with reasons and aims for the creation of regional trade agreements (RTAs), recent trends and new forms of regionalization process, overviews changes in the structure and content of RTAs. Focuse is made on rapid growth of the overall number of RTAs, increasing share of “deep” RTAs, covering not only trade in goods, but also trade in services and other spheres of economic cooperation, as well as intraregional and cross-continental RTAs, plurilateral RTAs including trade blocks as a party of such RTAs. Also the article introduces category of globalizing regionalism as a new factor of world trade policy.

Author Biographies

Aleksey Evgenievich Likhachev, Ministry of Economic Development of the RF

Doctor of Economics
Place of work, post: Ministry of Economic Development of the RF, Deputy Minister

Andrey Nikolaevich Spartak, Russian Foreign Trade Academy

Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Honored Worker of Science of RF
Place of work, post: The Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Head of Department

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Published

2024-02-08

How to Cite

Likhachev, A. E., & Spartak, A. N. (2024). New trends and developments in the process of regionalization world еconomy. Russian Foreign Economic Journal, (5), 20–27. Retrieved from https://journal.vavt.ru/rfej/article/view/1573

Issue

No. 5 (2013)

Section

World economy