Comparative Regional Integration: Theoretical Perspectives
Subtitle: Theoretical Perspectives
By: Finn Laursen
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781315197111
Subjects: International economic integration; Congresses; Regionalism (International organization); Regionalism; International relations; International Security; Intégration économique internationale; Congrès; Régionalisme (Politique internationale); Régionalisme; Relations internationales
Description: "This title was first published in 2003. After briefly reviewing the basic theoretical stances animating the rest of the proceedings, Laursen (international politics, U. of Southern Denmark) presents 11 contributions that comparatively review processes of regional integration around the world."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, PART I: INTRODUCTION --; title: chapter 1 Theoretical Perspectives on Comparative Regional Integration  -- Finn Laursen; title: part, PART II: GOVERNMENTALIST PERSPECTIVES --; title: chapter 2 Rebuilding the Central American Bloc in the 1990s: An Intergovernmentalist Approach to Integration  -- Rafael Sanchez; title: chapter 3 Presidentialism and Mercosur: A Hidden Cause for a Successful Experience  -- Andres Malamud; title: chapter 4 A Supply-Side Theory of International Economic Institutions for the Mercosur  -- Jose Raul Perales; title: part, PART III: POWER PERSPECTIVES --; title: chapter 5 Power and Regionalism: Explaining Regional Cooperation in the Persian Gulf  -- Persian Gulf Scott Cooper Brock Taylor; title: chapter 6 Two Funerals and a Wedding? The Ups and Downs of Regionalism in East Asia and Asia Pacific after the Asian Crisis  -- Douglas Webber; title: part, PART IV: CONSTRUCTIVIST PERSPECTIVES --; title: chapter 7 Rethinking the Mediterranean: Reality and Re-Presentation in the Creation ofa 'Region'  -- Michelle Pace; title: chapter 8 Two Sides of the Same Coin: Mutual Perceptions and Security Community in the Case o f Argentina and Brazil  -- Andrea Oelsner; title: chapter 9 Integration in Times o f Instability: Exchange Rate and Monetary Cooperation in Mercosur and the EU  -- Susana Borras Michael Kluth; title: part, PART V: NEOFUNCTIONALIST AND HISTORIAL INSTITUTIONALIST PERSPECTIVES --; title: chapter 10 The ECOWAS: From Regional Economic Organization to Regional Peacekeeper  -- Peter M. Dennis M. Leann Brown; title: chapter 11 Path Dependence and External Shocks: The Dynamics o f the EU Enlargement Eastwards  -- Svetlozar A. Andreev; title: part, PART VI: CONCLUDING COMMENTS --; title: chapter 12 The Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions o f Regional Integration: A Concluding Note  -- Walter Mattli; title: chapter 13 International Regimes or Would-be Polities? Some Concluding Questions and Remarks -- Finn Laursen.