TY - BOOK AU - Noura Abdelmaksoud Abdullah Eissa AU - Hassan Ebeid , AU - Kamal Elmenoufy , TI - EU-GCC economic partnership : : An international political economic view : An analytical study from 1995-2007 / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Noura Abdelmaksoud Abdullah Eissa , KW - Free trade agreement KW - Globalization KW - Regionalism N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Economics and Political Science - Department of Economics; Issued also as CD N2 - This study examines the nature behind member states in deciding whether to cooperate with one another in regional bloc or with other regional blocs through international economic patherships via free trade agreements. The theoretical frame of both political and economic regionalism was reviewed. Regionalism was explained as a concept, as a theory and with emphasis on the EU and the GCC as regional blocs ER -