ABSTRACT
Robust and enduring economic integration demands structural changes in broad fi elds of the regulation of social life. Thus it is a serious mistake not to view it as a policy of the whole state. To treat regional integration as simply a part of trade policy is to give primacy to mercantilist conceptions of integration, which make up a kind of long-term cannibalism since they relinquish the process to the bipolar disorder of the market.
