The Regional Integration Manual: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods

The Regional Integration Manual brings together different methods for monitoring and analysing regional integration processes in a systematic way. Employing a multi-disciplinary approach, it seeks to provide officials in regional organisations, researchers in think tanks, academics and students worldwide with an accessible set of both quantitative and qualitative tools, useful in their day-to-day work. The Manual addresses an increasing demand for such tools, in a world where mechanisms and ideas for effective regional government and governance are in dire need, whereas the monitoring and analytical capabilities of official and non-governmental actors often lag behind. It also addresses a rapidly growing academic community studying the determinants, depth, speed and other characteristics of regional integration and co-operation. Employing a multi-disciplinary approach, The Regional Integration Manual will be of interest to scholars of governance and regional politics as well as policy-makers and those in regional organisations.

Dr Philippe De Lombaerde is Associate Director at United Nations University (UNU-CRIS) and also a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Bonn-ZEI and at the College of Europe, Bruges.

Dr Renato Flôres is Professor at the Graduate School of Economics of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, and Visiting Professor at the University of Antwerp.

Dr Lelio Iapadre is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of L’Aquila and Adjunct Professor in International Economics at the Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Bologna Center. He is also an Associate Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS and a Corresponding Member of the Research Centre of International Economics (CIDEI), University of Rome "La Sapienza".

Dr Michael Schulz is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg .