Synopses & Reviews
This volume takes the debates on the political economy of regionalization beyond their current stage, utilizing the insight that regionalization entails profound socio-cultural, economic and political restructuring. The contributions challenge the traditional formal interstate and institutional bias in analyzes of regionalization, in which the EU is often presented as the model for understanding contemporary practices. Instead, they underscore the need to understand regionalization in terms of its myriad local articulations. There is not just one process of regionalization, but many.
About the Author
MORTEN BØÅS is Senior Researcher, Fafo - Institute for Applied International Studies, Oslo, Norway.
MARIANNE H. MARCHAND is Professor of International Relations at the University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico.
TIMOTHY M. SHAW is Professor of Commonwealth Governance and Development in the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK, where he also directs the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction - A Political Economy of Regions and Regionalisms; M.Boas, M.H.Marchand & T.M.Shaw * European Union-Mercosur: Inter-regionalism(s); C.Sanchez Bajo * Post-NAFTA Mexico: Re-territorialisation of Production and Exchange, and the Challenges to the Governance of Social and Economic Imbalances; I.Morales * Conflict Management and Constructive Engagement in the Expansion of the Association of South-East Asian Nations; R.Amer * Between Bush and Bolivar; Change and Continuity in the Remaking of Meso-America; B.Bull * Conflicting Regional Identities and Discourses: South(ern) African Responses to Zimbabwe's Crisis; S.MacLean * APEC, ASEAN+4 and American Power: The History and Limits of the New Regionalisms in the Asia-Pacific; M.T.Berger & M.Beeson * The Labour and Civil Society Dimensions of Regionalism in the Americas; M.Riethof * Migrations and Regionalisms; J.M.Sandoval * Conclusion - Towards a New Political Economy of Regionalisms; M. Bøås, M.H.Marchand & T.M.Shaw