Mercosur: Regional Integration, World Markets
  • 1999/139 pages

Mercosur:

Regional Integration, World Markets

Riordan Roett, editor
Hardcover: $55.00
ISBN: 978-1-55587-837-5
Paperback: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-55587-838-2
This timely volume describes the origins of Mercosur, South America’s dynamic and successful regional integration project, as well as the issues still to be tackled regarding the trade bloc’s expansion, the challenges to its transition from a customs union to the “Common Market of the South,” and its relations with other trade groups and countries (particularly the European Union and the United States).
Riordan Roett is Sarita and Don Johnston Professor of Political Science and director of the Western Hemisphere Program at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University.  He is also founding director of the SAIS Program on U.S.-Mexico Relations and the Center of Brazilian Studies.  He is author of numerous books and articles on Latin America and recently edited The Challenge of Institutional Reform in Mexico and The Mexican Peso Crisis: International Perspectives.