The professionals who examine how regional economic integration arrangements — free trade agreements, customs unions, common markets, and economic unions — affect the economic development trajectories, industrial policy autonomy, and democratic governance capacity of member states whose integration commitments create benefits and constraints that international political economy analysis must assess with analytical rigor that neither reflexively celebrates nor dismisses regional integration's complex developmental consequences from Arlington's international trade and development economics research programs represent one of the most contested and consequential specializations in contemporary international political economy scholarship. These regional economic integration and development consequences research specialists combine advanced international economics with political economy methodology in a research domain where ideological controversy and genuine analytical uncertainty make rigorous empirical work both more difficult and more valuable than in less politically contested research domains. We are located at: 2300 Wilson Blvd Ste. 700, Arlington, VA 22201. Call us: (571) 262-0804
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