Comparing Regionalisms: Implications for Global Development (International Political Economy Series)

Hardcover, xxxii + 292 pages, NOT ex-library. Interior with limited minor wear, clean and bright throughout, unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Gentle handling marks on page edges externally; firm secure binding. Dust jacket is untorn, shelfworn, with light creasing along the edges. -- Comparing Regionalisms summarizes the UNU/WIDER international research project on the formation of world regions, and what implications this process will have for the future world order, particularly as far as the important issues of peace and development are concerned. This last volume in a series of five focuses on comparative research, covering all important regions of the world. Comparative studies are seen as the next step in regional analysis. Acknowledging the enormous variety of regional formations, the contributors nevertheless argue that a comparative approach to the dynamics of regionalization will provide important knowledge not only about the regions in question, but also about the emerging world order. -- Contents: Introduction; Regionalism, Security and Development: A Comparative Perspective; Transnational Integration and National Disintegration Revisited; Regionalisms Compared: The African and Southeast Asian Experience; Post-Hegemonic and Post-Socialist Regionalisms: A Comparison of Central Europe and East Asia; The European Union and Nafta Compared; Subregional Responses to Globalization: A Comparative Analysis; Key Issues in the New Regionalism: Comparisons From Asia, Africa and the Middle East.