Synopses & Reviews
This is the first of four volumes reporting on the UNU-WIDER project on new regionalism. It deals with the conceptions and meanings of two processes which probably will have a crucial influence on the shape of the "new world order"--globalization and regionalization. They relate to each other as challenge to response, globalization being the challenge of economic and cultural homogenization of the world and regionalization being a social and political reaction. The leading writers in the field contribute thought-provoking and fascinating articles to this volume.
About the Author
Björn Hettne is Professor of Department of Peace and Development at the University of Göteborg.
András Inotai is Staff Member of the World Bank in Washington, DC.
Osvaldo Sunkel is Professor of Economics and Business Administration and Coordinator of Sustainable Development Programs at the Centro de Análisis e Politicas Públicans, Universidad de Chile.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Giovanni Andrea Cornia * Prologue to the Four Volumes * Notes on the Contributors * Introduction by the Editors * Globalization and the New Regionalism: The Second Great Transformation--B. Hettne * Rethinking the New Regionalism in the Context of Globalization--J. H. Mittelman * Regionalization in Response to Polarizing Globalization--S. Amin * Political Regionalism: Master or Servant of Economic Internationalization?--H. Hveem * The New Regionalism: Impediment or Spur to Future Multilateralism?--P.S. Mistry * Globalism and Regionalism: The Costs of Dichotomy--R. Pettman * Regionalization and its Impact on the Theory of International Relation--K. Lähteenmäki and J. Käkönen * Regionalism and World Order after the Cold War--R. Falk * New Regionalism in Southern Africa: Part of or Alternative to the Globalization of the World Economy?--B. Odén * Transnational Integration and National Disintegration Revisited--O. Sunkelk and M. Mortimore * Index