Governance, Asia–European relations and regional trade agreements

In the last decade of the old century, the process and the consequences of “globalization” were the subject of much attention. Although a “global” definition of “globalization” does not exist as yet, the growing mobility of goods, capital and labor across borders and around the world, with its strong relationship to the development of transport and communication networks, is generally considered to be the most obvious indicator of the globalization process (Held et al. 1999).