592 Pages
by
Routledge
592 Pages
by
Routledge
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Regionalism has regained momentum in the post-Cold War era. New economic groupings continue to spring up across the globe, while older regional organizations have strengthened their institutional bases and broadened their scope. Explaining the reinvigoration of regionalism requires comparative analyses that not only highlight the commonalities that characterize various regional experiments but... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Part I General: Comparative regional integration: concept and measurement, Joseph S. Nye; Explaining the resurgence of regionalism in world politics, Andrew Hurrell; The new wave of regionalism, Edward D. Mansfield and Helen V. Milner. Part II Sub-Saharan Africa: Regional integration and the crisis in sub-Saharan Africa, Peter Robson; Africa's record of regional co-operation and integration, Percy S. Mistry; The African Union and the new partnership for Africa's development: strong institutions for weak states?, Keith Gottschalk and Siegmar Schmidt. Part III East Asia: 30 years of ASEAN: achievements and challenges, Jörn Dosch and Manfred Mols; 2 funerals and a wedding? The ups and downs of regionalism in East Asia and Asia-Pacific after the Asian crisis, Douglas Webber; ASEAN plus 3: emerging East Asian regionalism?, Richard Stubbs; A 3 bloc world? The new East Asian regionalism, John Ravenhill; The social construction of international institutions: the case of ASEAN+3, Dirk Nabers. Part IV Latin America: On the road to Southern Cone economic integration, Jeffrey Cason; Regionalist governance in the new political economy of development: 'relaunching' the Mercosur, Nicola Phillips; Explaining Latin American economic integration: the case of Mercosur, Karl Kaltenthaler and Frank O. Mora. Part V Middle East and North Africa: Regional economic union in the Maghreb, Ahmed Aghrout and Keith Sutton; Theories of integration in a new context: the Gulf Cooperation Council, Fred H. Lawson. Part VI Central Eurasia: Inter-state cooperation in Central Asia from the CIS to the Shanghai Forum, Gregory Gleason; Regionalism, regional structures and security management in Central Asia, Roy Allison. Part VII Western Europe: Preferences and power in the European Community: a liberal intergovernmentalist approach, Andrew Moravcsik; A constructivist approach to understanding the European Union as a federal polity, Rey Koslowski; The institutional foundations of intergovernmentalism and supranationalism in the European Union, George Tsebelis and Geoffrey Garrett; Name index.
Biography
Fred H. Lawson is Professor in the Department of Government at Mills College, Oakland, CA.
