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The Geographic Structure of Cross-national Trade Flows and Region States

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  • Jessie Poon
  • Kavita Pandit

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POON J. and PANDIT K. (1996) The geographic structure of cross-national trade flows and region states, Reg. Studies 30, 273-285. Recent trends in the globalization of production and the formation of regional coalitions has brought into question the suitability of the nation state as the relevant scale for regional analysis. Economic activities are increasingly occuring within supranational spaces or region states, which act as mediators between the national and the international economy. The rise of the region state has provoked fears that the postwar world order is disintegrating into closed trading blocs. This paper examines the spatial structure of region states and the role they play in the international economy, based upon international trade flows 1970-90. Six region states are identified, arranged around the core market countries of the US, Japan, Germany, France, UK and the former USSR. Trade linkages between region states are hierarchically arranged, revealing a bipolar structure of Pan-Pacific and Pan-European trade. We also found an increase in the trade between region states relative to the trade within region states, indicating that the emerging regionalization is associated with stronger global interdependencies. POON J. et PANDIT K. (1996) La geographie des flux commerciaux transnationaux et des etats-region, Reg. Studies 30, 273-285. Des tendances recentes dans la globalisation de la production et l'etablissement de coalitions regionales ont remis en question la pertinence de la nation en tant que l'echelle appropriee a l'analyse regionale. Des activites economiques ont lieu de plus en plus a l'interieur des espaces supranationales ou des etats-region qui se servent de mediateurs entre l'economie nationale et internationale. La montee de l'etat-region a provoque des craintes que l'ordre economique mondial d'apres-guerre se desintegre dans des blocs commerciaux clos. Cet article cherche a examiner la geographie des etats-region et le role qu'ils jouent dans l'economie internationale a partir des flux commerciaux internationaux de 1970 a 1990. Six etats-region se voient identifier, situes autour des marches qui constituent le noyau, a savoir les Etats-Unis, le Japon, l'Allemagne, la France, le Royaume-Uni et l'ex-Union sovietique. Les relations commerciales entre les etats-region sont organisees sous forme d'une hierarchie, ce qui laisse voir une structure bipolaire de commerce panpacifique et paneuropeen. Ils'est avere aussi une augmentation du commerce entre les etats-region, ce qui signale que la regionalisation naissante s'associe a de plus fortes interdependances mondiales. POON J. und PANDIT K. (1996) Die geographische Struktur von Handelsstromungen uber Nationalstaaten und Staaten-regionen hinweg, Reg. Studies 30, 273-285. Tendenzen der jungsten Vergangenheit bezuglich Globalisation der Produktion, und die Bildung regionaler Koalitionen haben dazu gefuhrt, die Angemessenheit des Nationalstaates also relevantem Massstab fur die Regionalanalyse in Frage zu stellen. Wirtschaftliche Tatigkeit findet zunehmend in Nationalstaaten und Staatenregionen uberspringenden Raumen statt, die als Vermittler der internationalen Wirtschaft und der eines Landes auftreten. Der Aufstieg der Staatenregion hat zu Befurchtungen gefuhrt, dass die wirtschaftliche Weltordnung der Nachkriegszeit ins Wanken gerat und der Herausbildung abgeschlossener Handelsblocke weicht. Dieser Aufsatz untersucht die raumliche Struktur von Staatenregionen und ihre Rolle in der internationalen Wirtschaft auf der Basis internationaler Handelsflusse im Zeitraum 1970-1990. Es werden sechs Staatenregionen identifiziert, die sich um die Kernmarktlander der USA, Japans, Deutschlands, Frankreichs, Grossbritanniens und der ehemaligen Sovietunion gebildet haben. Handelsverbindungen zwischen Staatenregionen sind hierarchisch geordnet, wobei sich eine bipolare Struktur pan-pazifischen und pan-europaischen Handels ergibt. Es wurde daruberhinaus eine Zunahme des Handels zwischen Staatenregionen im Verhaltnis zu dem innerhalb der Staatenregionen festgestellt, was darauf hinweist, dass die aufkommende Regionalisierung mit starkerer globaler Interdependenz verbunden ist.

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  • Jessie Poon & Kavita Pandit, 1996. "The Geographic Structure of Cross-national Trade Flows and Region States," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(3), pages 273-285.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:30:y:1996:i:3:p:273-285
    DOI: 10.1080/00343409612331349628
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    1. Ron Boschma & Simona Iammarino & Raffaele Paci & Jordy SuriƱach & Dimitris Kallioras & Anna Maria Pinna, 2017. "Trade Activity Between the EU and Its Neighbouring Countries: Trends and Potential," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 108(1), pages 36-51, February.
    2. Dimitris Kallioras & George Petrakos & Maria Tsiapa, 2021. "The Geography of Trade Among the European Union and the European Neighborhood Policy Countries," Economic Studies journal, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute, issue 1, pages 3-18.

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