Macmillan International Political Economy S.
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A Spatial Approach to Regionalisms in the Global Economy
by Michael Niemann
Published 1 January 1999
The author challenges the traditional manner in which regionalization has been approached and suggests that the failure to come to grips with this phenomenon is the result of the modernist regulation of space to margins of analysis. He advances instead a spatially-orientated approach which views states as one of multiple layers of a global social space. Regionalization represents the construction of new layers in an effort to search for an institutional fix to the challenges of globalization.