This book deals with the dynamics of international specializations during the present period of trade globalization. It discusses international trade as a network linking countries, and uses structural techniques to analyze the evolving structure of this network. It offers a new approach to address the economic emergence of countries. Using these structural methods, the book also explains knowledge exchange. Indeed, the structure transformation of the international trade is partly due to an exchange of competencies between regions. Many concrete examples are proposed.

Didier Lebert is a researcher at Unité d'Economie Appliquée, ENSTA ParisTech, University Paris-Saclay in France.

Hafida El Younsi is a researcher at Unité d'Economie Appliquée, ENSTA ParisTech, University Paris-Saclay in France.