The Political Economy of Regional Integration in Developing Countries

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Abstract

The Centre for Regional Science at Umeå University (CERUM) and the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm has initiated a joint research effort concerning sustainable development. The general purpose of that comparative research program, which includes scientists from Sweden, Norway, the United States, Singapore, Taiwan, China, South Korea and Japan, is to analyze conditions for sustainable development in the rapidly developing economies of East Asia compared with the situation in Northern Europe. In this effort, sustainable development is analyzed as a complex interaction between economic growth, democratization and environmental concerns.This working paper is written in the context of this project by Jeanette Edblad at the Department of Political Science, Umeå University and is also her master thesis.