Intraregional economic integration: The cases of GAFTA and MAFTA

Beyond Regionalism?: Regional Cooperation, Regionalism and Regionalization in the Middle East

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 169-183

  Zorob, Anja ^a  

^a GIGA GERMAN INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL AND AREA STUDIES   (Germany)

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