This highly topical book brings together some of the world's leading specialists on the global car industry, who discuss the ins and outs of the faster lane of regionalism at a time when the world is reassessing the ins and outs of globalization. It provides a thorough and up-to-date mapping of the worldwide geography of the car industry, in the triad regions (Europe, North America and Japan), and in emerging countries and regions.

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DENNIS AUDET Organization for Economic Co-operation and Devepment (OECD), Paris, France ANTHONY BLACK Associate Professor and Director of the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa JEAN-JACQUES CHANARON CNRS Director, GATE, Université Louis Lumière, Lyons, France LALE DURUIZ Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey MICHEL FREYSSENET CNRS Director, GERPISA and CSU-IRESCO, Paris, France YEONG-HYUN KIM Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Ohio University, Ohio, USA MARIANO LAPLANE Professor of Economics, Universidade Estadual de Caompinas-UNICAMP, São Paulo, Brazil MARC LAUTIER Senior Lecturer in Economics, Université de Rouen, France JEAN-BERNARD LAYAN Reader in Economics, Montesquieu University, Bordeaux, France MIHOUB MEZOUAGHI Research Fellow, Institut de Recherches sur le Maghreb Contemporain, Tunis, Tunisia SAMSON MURADZIKWA Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, University of Capetown, South Africa FERNANDO SARTI Emeritus Professor, Hoshei University, and Professor, Tokaigakuen University, Yokohama, Japan ERIC THUN Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA

Inhalt
Introduction; Y.Lung & R.van Tulder PART 1: A WORLD OF REGIONS? The Fast Lane of Regionalism; R.van Tulder & D.Audet Multinational Car Makers Regional Strategies; M. Freyssenet & Y.Lung PART 2: REGIONAL INTEGRATION WITHIN INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES The Dynamics of Regional Integration in the European Car Industry; J-B.Layan & Y.Lung Peripheral Regionalism: The Consequences of Integrating Central and Eastern Europe in the European Automobile Space; R.van Tulder Challenges for the Turkish Car Industry on its Way to Integration with the EU; L.Duruiz NAFTA: The Process of Regional Integration Evolution of Motor Vehicle Production; J.Carillo PART 3: REGIONAL INTEGRATION WITHIN EMERGING REGIONS MERCOSUR: Interaction between Governments and Producers and the Sustainability of the Regional Automobile Space; M.Laplane & F.Sarti ASEAN: Developing a Division of Labour in a Developing Region; K.Shimokawa The Revival of the Automotive Industry in the Commonwealth of Independent States; J-J.Chanaron Limits to Regionalism: The Automotive Industry in the Southern African Development Community; A.Black & S.Muradzikwa Magrebi Integration and the Automobile Industry: Past Failures and New Perspectives; J-B.Layan & M.Mezouaghi PART 4: THE CHALLENGE OF GOING ALONE The Risk of Go-it-Alone: The Japanese Car Industry - From Boom to Bust?; R.van Tulder "Avoiding the Neighbours": The National/Global Development Strategy of the Korean Automobile Industry; M.Lautier Going Local: Foreign Investment, Local Development and the Chinese Auto Sector; E.Thun The Indian Passenger Car Industry and the South Asian Market: Global Auto Companies' Struggles in India; Y-H.Kim