Political Economy of Competitiveness in an Enlarged Europe

JULIE PELLEGRIN is Research Associate at the Institute for German Studies. She has been visiting fellow at CERGE-EI in Prague and the Wissenschaftszentrum in Berlin, and has participated in several international research projects on the internationalization of production in Central/Eastern Europe.

• List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations The Enlargement Problematique: Heterogeneity, Catching Up and Convergence The Neglected Importance of OPT in CEECs' Foreign Trade OPT Partnership at Firm-level: A 'Learning Approach' The Transformation of a Policy Instrument The Politics of OPT Theories of Regional Economic Integration Revisited Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography Appendices Index