The New Regionalism: Developing Countries and Regional Collaborative Competition*

The Evolution of Free Economic Zones and the Recent Development of Cross‐National Growth Zones*

“…The transition of socialist and former socialist countries toward market economies, coupled with their integration into the capitalist world economy, will lead to a more extensive transfer of FEZs across countries with different political ideologies and economic systems. The various forms of regional collaborative competitionspurred by the competing tendencies of firms to internationalize production and of states to nationalize intellectual assets (Morales and Quandt, 1992:462, emphasis original) -are conducive to the development of crossnational economic zones. The successful development of truly free cross-national economic zones, however, depends on a limited but effective supranational governance structure, relatively easy collective access to large financial resources, the free crossborder movement of people, capital and information, and the removal of tariffs and visa requirements.…”