Gateway Cities in Global Production Networks Insights from the Oil

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of gateway cities in contemporary circuits of global production. Apart from facilitating the interlinking of economic activities in the surrounding regions with the global economy, gateway cities hav

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Moritz Breul

Gateway Cities in Global Production Networks Insights from the Oil and Gas Industry in Southeast Asia

Economic Geography Series Advisory Editors Dieter Kogler , UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland Peter Dannenberg , Geographisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Nuri Yavan , Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi, Ankara Üniversitesi, Ankara, Turkey Päivi Oinas , Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland Michael Webber, School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia David Rigby, Department of Geography, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Moritz Breul

Gateway Cities in Global Production Networks Insights from the Oil and Gas Industry in Southeast Asia

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Moritz Breul Institute of Geography University of Cologne Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

ISSN 2520-1417 ISSN 2520-1425 (electronic) Econ