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According to Andreas Predöhl, West Germany's economy can prosper only as an integral part of the west European industrial core area; regional economic integration, he contends, must take precedence over a multilateral, nondiscriminatory reduction of trade barriers. This thesis is tested by examining the impact of the OEEC, EPU, ECSC, and EEC on West Germany's post-World War II economic recovery and growth. The OEEC and EPU opened the way for Western Europe's participation in the world economy and promoted the economic growth of member countries when postwar attempts to restore multilateral trade had failed. Since the late 1950s, when the major European currencies became convertible, a multilateral trade liberalization would have been more advantageous than Western European regional integration, but the limited regional reduction of trade barriers was preferable to no trade liberalization at all. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lack of aboriginal governance model, which is appropriate to national, cultural and ideological circumstances of Iran, is one of the most important problems in the development process of Iran. This paper used Meta-Analysis Method (MAM) to combine the findings of other researches and tries to take a step forward in developing the Iranian Governance model. In this study, 68 articles and reports about governance issues published in the period from 2003 to 2015 have been studied. These articles have been obtained from the four main scientific databases in two main parts including descriptive finding and analytic qualitative finding. In the descriptive part, we used six indicators for description of the articles includes types of article, publishing period, typology, researchers’ gender, geographical distribution, and research methods. Quiddity, knowing why and knowing how were the three main indicators, due to the Belicky's research, for the analytical part. The results of the meta-analysis showed that Iranian researches in the field of governance are in the scope of knowing why and their articles are more about quiddity of governance and why governance models are needed. Although there are some serious criticisms for this theory, “Good governance” is the dominant theory among Iranian researchers. Some researchers have developed “Islamic Good Governance” models but these recommendations seem too intellectual and theoretical and because of the paradoxical roots they will not be very useful.