Less than meets the eye: state re-regulation via regional institutionalization -- More than meets the eye: market reconfiguration at the continental level -- The continent in transition -- further reconfiguration under globalizing pressures -- Not what meets the eye: global governance North...

In the context of the failure of the World Trade Organization (WTO)'s Doha Round, a proliferation of bilateral, state-to-state trade and investment negotiations is taking place in parallel and sometimes in conflict with the strengthening phenomenon of regionalization. After having adopted a...