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A Middle East Free Trade Area: Economic Interdependence and Peace Considered
Article first published online: 11 JUL 2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9701.2007.01036.x
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Momani, B. (2007), A Middle East Free Trade Area: Economic Interdependence and Peace Considered. The World Economy, 30: 1682–1700. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9701.2007.01036.x
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- Issue published online: 11 JUL 2007
- Article first published online: 11 JUL 2007
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The Bush administration hopes that through a Middle East Free Trade Area (MEFTA), peace and stability can be achieved through intra-regional economic cooperation. The current impediments to intra-regional economic cooperation, however, will make a MEFTA a hub-and-spoke trade relationship between the United States and the Middle East. Neoliberal arguments for the interrelation of peace and economic interdependence in the context of the Middle East are then considered.