Böcker i New Regionalisms Series-serien

Offers a coherent picture of strategic, design and political economy aspects of North-South trade negotiation processes, from African, Asian and Latin American perspectives. This title provides negotiators and policy makers in the South with recommendations, best practices, and benchmarks and contribute to the understanding of these processes.

Exploring the formation, evolution and effectiveness of the regional security arrangements of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the author examines a number of vital and troubling questions: Why has SADC struggled to establish a viable security regime? Why has it been unable to engage in successful peacemaking?

The nation states in the Black Sea area have initiated many co-operative policies but the area also sees numerous tensions between neighboring states. This title places the Black Sea problematique in a historical and spatial context. It takes a closer look at the region and examines further the structure of the Black Sea area.

Triggered by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Canada, the United States and Mexico redefined their public policies to facilitate the regionalization of transactions. However, this volume addresses the institutional gaps that still remain focusing mainly on the cross-border governance of security aspects.

Clarifies the perception of the euro and demonstrates that the euro has become a true common currency and the Eurozone a true optimal currency area, presenting, in turn, a model to imitate. This title sheds light on how the economic and monetary circumstances affect the euro project through and analysis of three intertwined issues.

Advances the concept of region building as an alternative to the construction of regions with three issues of region building being explored: Why are regions built in a world of states? How do region building processes take place? And how are regions transforming the present world order?

Takes a comparative approach across space and time to regional organizations in North and South America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. This book describes and explains the genesis and growth of regional organizations. It considers the impact of regional organizations on their member states.

Recent transformations in Latin America and the Caribbean are reviewed to depict and explain the new trends shaping regional blocs and cooperation in the Americas.

This book compares and contrasts the contemporary development experience of neighbouring, geographically similar countries with an analogous history of exploitation but by three different European colonizers.

The book informs academic as well as non-academic audiences about regional developments in the Americas, in particular those dating back to the last twenty years. Beyond the primary purpose of summarizing the hemisphere's recent trends.

Latin America is at a unique important juncture in its history. Neoliberal market-orientated policies are being called into question and growth has been volatile. In Latin America, there is no clear direction for change. This book presents an alternative development path for Latin America based on an East Asian model.

In contemporary discourse on China-Africa relations, there are three differing perspectives. On one hand Sino-pessimists view China as a giant, feeding on Africa's resources to fuel its own industrialization. On the other hand, Sino-optimists see China as a benevolent state capable of 'developing' the continent.

Globalization has changed the context for, and the organizational forms of, politics, unleashing forces in support of, and in opposition to, the globalization dynamic. Investigating the dynamics of change and development in two regions of the world economy, Latin America and Asia, this book evaluates these forces, their political dynamics, and the responses of governments and citizens.

Exploring to what extent the BRICS group is a significant actor challenging the global order, this book focuses on the degree and consequence of their emergence and explores how important cooperation is to individual BRICS members¿ foreign policy strategies and potential relevance as leaders in regional and global governance.

What we call "North America" today is a human space that has been constructed over the centuries, perceived from time immemorial by its original inhabitants as a unified whole, and named Turtle Island. What is North America today? Is it more than the sum of its parts? Does it qualify as a distinct global region? Is it just a market or also something else? This book explores several neglected aspects of the key relationships between Canada, Mexico and the United States. Studies of societal relations in North America have typically been limited to trade, investment and intergovernmental relations. In contrast, the authors in this book address other vital issues which bind this global region together, including Indigenous peoples, security, migration, civil societies, democracy, identities and culture. Via a thorough examination of these issues, the historical, sociological, economic, and political aspects of regional linkages are highlighted. Rather than dealing with each country in isolation, each chapter in this collection considers North America as a single unit of analysis, therefore systematically addressing the regional dynamic as a whole, and engaging the country-specific differences in a truly comparative way. By providing the analytical tools needed, this important book makes sense of the different aspects of the complex societies of contemporary North America.

Includes themes such as: how regions and cities adapt to a Network Society and a globalized environment, the policies they pursue and how structures of governance are transformed in the pursuit of those policies. This title addresses these issues with specific reference to the Nordic regions of Europe.

The nation states in the Black Sea area have initiated many co-operative policies but the area also sees numerous tensions between neighboring states. The conflict-co-operation paradox, along with ethnic fragmentation and shared culture, are two of the most salient features of the Black Sea Area. These paradoxes are not the only force in the evolution of the region though. There are also issues such as ethnic and national identity, the failure of democratization, energy and resources, as well as the influence of other powers such as Russia, the EU and the USA. The key questions asked by the authors in this book are: to what extent is there an emerging regionalism in the Black Sea area? Is the Black Sea a region? What are the common interests shared by the former USSR states, the three EU member states neighboring the Black Sea - Bulgaria, Greece and Romania, and a NATO country - Turkey? Are the fault-lines dividing them more pervasive than the incentives for cooperation? Can we speak of a shared identity? The first part of the book places the Black Sea problematique in a wider historical and spatial context. The authors then take a closer look at the region and examine further the structure of the Black Sea area. They offer a perspective on smaller actors with great ambitions, such as Azerbaijan and Romania, and go on to make a comparison between the emerging regionalism in the Black Sea area and regionalisms in other parts of the world.

A book that brings together comparative perspectives on: the strategies of state and non-state actors involved in the exploitation of sub-Saharan energy resources; the potential and pitfalls of new forms of cooperation on energy southwards of the Sahara; and the domestic opportunities and challenges of the present energy resource boom.

Providing the first book-length analysis of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), this volume asks how can it be ensured that the AfCFTA is effectively implemented to deliver inclusive trade in Africa.

This responding volume has four interrelated topics. It explores the transformation taking place in/with regard to the financing of development in the Global South and the apparition of new players in the field.

Burron provides a critical analysis of Canadian and US democracy promotion in the Americas. He concentrates on Haiti, Peru, and Bolivia in particular but situates them within a larger analysis of Canadian and US foreign policy - bilateral and regional - in the areas of trade, investment, diplomacy, security and, for the United States, the war on drugs.

Recent 'great transformations' are characterized by a diffusion of power away from the traditional North Western powers and towards the global South. This volume suggests that the world will witness a new era of interdependent hegemony.

Establishing strategic partnerships is a key objective for the European Union. These partnerships provide frameworks for flexible and long-term cooperation with global and regional players. This book focuses on the EU's strategy toward China and India and explores ways of promoting a stronger and more versatile role for the EU in Asia.

Studies the effectiveness of regional institutions as well as key questions concerning the attempts to overcome serious problems of security, governance and poor economic performance in the Pacific. This book talks about the requirement of a stronger commitment to overcome apparent national problems through regional cooperation.

Offers theoretical models and approaches attuned to the dynamics and contradictions of a wide range of regionalist projects in the contemporary Middle East. This volume includes case studies of the important regional organizations in different policy fields. It provides overviews of the main actors, institutions and historical development.

This book traces the advent and subsequent growth of production sharing between outsourcing textile, apparel firms and assembly operations located in designated export processing zones. This case study allows a number of broad conclusions to be reached regarding the political economy of production sharing.

Human rights are acquiring an increasingly prominent role on the world stage. These developments are addressed by an examination of the links between the evolving global human rights regime and the character and course of human rights in the world's most dynamic, complex and problematic region, that of the Asia Pacific.

Analyses the poverty reduction effectiveness of certain aspects of the European Union's (EU) development policy and suggests ways in which to enhance its effectiveness. This book focuses on three aspects of EU development policy: trade, agriculture and food security, and modes of policy-making and implementation.