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Article: Arab Economic Integration: Between Hope and Reality.(Book Review)
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- Middle East Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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Edited by Ahmed Galal and Bernard Hoekman. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003.170 pp. $20.95, paper.
By the time the European Common Market was created by the treaty of Rome in 1957, the Arab League states had signed among themselves a treaty for joint defense and economic cooperation, a convention for facilitating trade and regulating transit trade, and an Arab economic unity agreement. In addition, they had created the Arab League in 1945 as an institution for political coordination. Ironically, though the Arab states pioneered regional economic and political integration, the Middle East today has the least trade within itself of any region in ...