Introduction; Y.Lung & R.van Tulder PART 1: A WORLD OF REGIONS? The Fast Lane of Regionalism; R.van Tulder & D.Audet Multinational Carmakers' Regional Strategies; M.Freyssenet & Y.Lung PART 2: REGIONAL INTEGRATION WITH(IN) INDUSTRIALIZED REGIONS 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 European Union; L.Duruiz NAFTA: The Process of Regional Integration Evolution of Motor Vehicle Production; J.Carrillo PART 3: REGIONAL INTEGRATION WITHIN EMERGING REGIONS MERCOSUR: Interaction between Governments and Producers and the Sustainability of the Regional Automobile Industry; M.F.Laplane & F.Sarti ASEAN: Developing a Division of Labour in a Developing Region; K.Shimokawa Recreating an Automobile Space by Regional Integration: The CIS Perspective; J-J.Chanaron The Limits to Regionalism: The Automotive Industry in the Southern African Development Community; A.Black & S.Muradzikwa PART 4: THE CHALLENGE OF 'GO IT 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