Given the close correlation between race and class in the United States, socioeconomic integration is also a powerful driver of racial integration.
Brazil has woken up to the 10 states along its borders, becoming the eminent power and driver of regional integration in South America.
Globalisation is a moral issue, all right.If technological progress were the only driver of global integration, the anti-capitalist threat would be less worrying.
If the EU has a future as the driver of European integration, it has to reform its structures, shelve its neoliberal myopia, rediscover its social mission, stabilise its dysfunctional currency, and genuinely assist, rather than punish, its ailing member states.
Moreover, in the transport and couriers sub-industries, it is possible to identify another key driver of horizontal integration: the creation of efficient transport chains able to control the main traffic flows and guarantee a wider geographic coverage [6, 34].
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the main institutional driver of regional integration in East Asia, is also in no hurry to come up with a legally-binding Code of Conduct (CoC) to prevent violent confrontations in the Western Pacific.
This paper's goal is not an in-depth analysis of the drivers of grid integration costs, but rather to place bounds on the size of the problem, and to determine under what circumstances integration costs are relevant to policy design.
Scope economies and transaction economies are the main drivers of vertical integration [43, 76].
These strong institutional, structural, and ideational similarities make them some of the most likely candidates to converge if the liberal convergence thesis is correct that global and European pressures external to the welfare state are the main drivers of national integration policy.
However, the other aim of the programme, with telehealth and telecare acting as a driver for new levels of integration, and providing lessons for wide-scale future implementation, was less successful.
