International Specialization Dynamics

1Overview of the Globalization of Trade in Industrial Goods: 1980–2004

1.1. Introduction

The aim of this chapter is to present a full range of tools derived from social network analysis (SNA) to provide an overview of the globalization of trade in industrial goods between 1980 and 2004.

Other authors have already undertaken this exercise using specific data sets (at least from the works of [SMI 92] to [DEB 13]). The merits of the chapter lie in the fact that it structures SNA indicators so that it is complete in both the forms of networks that are studied (directed and undirected, binary and weighted) and in the structural phenomena that are apprehended (density, connectivity, centrality, clustering, assortment). The works of the LEM are used as the basis to produce this version of the overview of SNA.

1.2. Data

We will use data from TradeProd database on bilateral trade flow collected and organized by CEPII for 28 products (ISIC, Revision 2 nomenclature), in thousands of current dollars, for the period 1980–2004¹. Among all the countries listed in this database (227 entries), we consider 171 (section A.2 in the Appendix). This sample results from stages. The first stage consists of consolidating some countries that came into being during the study period, after the breakup of the Socialist Republics.

• – “Russia”: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine;
• – “Czechoslovakia”: ...