Introduction; Y.Lung & R.van Tulder PART 1: A WORLD OF REGIONS? The Fast Lane of Regionalism; R.van Tulder & D.Audet Multinational Car Makers Regional Strategies; M. Freyssenet & Y.Lung PART 2: REGIONAL INTEGRATION WITHIN INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES The Dynamics of Regional Integration in the European Car Industry; J-B.Layan & Y.Lung Peripheral Regionalism: The Consequences of Integrating Central and Eastern Europe in the European Automobile Space; R.van Tulder Challenges for the Turkish Car Industry on its Way to Integration with the EU; L.Duruiz NAFTA: The Process of Regional Integration Evolution of Motor Vehicle Production; J.Carillo PART 3: REGIONAL INTEGRATION WITHIN EMERGING REGIONS MERCOSUR: Interaction between Governments and Producers and the Sustainability of the Regional Automobile Space; M.Laplane & F.Sarti ASEAN: Developing a Division of Labour in a Developing Region; K.Shimokawa The Revival of the Automotive Industry in the Commonwealth of Independent States; J-J.Chanaron Limits to Regionalism: The Automotive Industry in the Southern African Development Community; A.Black & S.Muradzikwa Magrebi Integration and the Automobile Industry: Past Failures and New Perspectives; J-B.Layan & M.Mezouaghi PART 4: THE CHALLENGE OF GOING ALONE The Risk of Go-it-Alone: The Japanese Car Industry - From Boom to Bust?; R.van Tulder "Avoiding the Neighbours": The National/Global Development Strategy of the Korean Automobile Industry; M.Lautier Going Local: Foreign Investment, Local Development and the Chinese Auto Sector; E.Thun The Indian Passenger Car Industry and the South Asian Market: Global Auto Companies' Struggles in India; Y-H.Kim