The Role of Non-State Actors in the EU, Africa, Asia and Middle East
Edited by David Armstrong, Valeria Bello, Julie Gilson, Debora Spini
Published 29th October 2010 by Routledge – 224 pages
Series: Routledge/GARNET series
Civil Society and International Governance critically analyses the increasing impact of nongovernmental organisations and civil society on global and regional governance. Written from the [...]

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Regional Integration and alternatives Theory

By Walden Bello*
(Speech at the Conference on “Regional Integration: an Opportunity Presented by the Crisis”, Universidad de Deportes, Asuncion, Paraguay, July 21-22, 2009.)
Globalization has ended in massive failure.
One response to this crisis has been to dump export-oriented industrialization and reemphasize the primacy of the national market in sustaining economic growth.
Another response, complementary to this, has [...]

Regional Integration and alternatives Theory

Rosalba Icaza
Different experiences of regionalism have produced different explanations about their benefits and costs, driving forces and agents, objectives and strategies. While some might emphasize the positive side that the harmonization of phytosanitary standards could have for consumers in a given region, for example, others might highlight the negative consequences for the diversity of products [...]

Regional Integration and alternatives Theory

Brid Brennan and Cecilia Olivet
A profound process of de-legitimation of the structures and key institutions of the current neoliberal model of economic globalization has marked the last years of the 20th century and the beginning of the new millennium. Parallel with this, we have also witnessed the intense search for alternatives, highlighted in the World [...]

Regional Integration and alternatives Theory

Dot Keet
The new alternative regionalisms being promoted by social movements are ‘alternative’ to the increasingly neoliberal directions being taken, and the regional trade and investment liberalization programmes being adopted or reinforced in the existing regional groupings of countries of the South. Social movement strategies for alternative regionalisms are also designed to counter the so-called ‘regional [...]

Regional Integration and alternatives Theory

Aileen Kwa
The world trade negotiations of the so called “Doha Development Round” at the WTO are in the limelight. High expectations on a successful conclusion of the round are placed by a majority of governments both from the North and the South and by the international business communities. A more cautious position is taken by [...]

Regional Integration and alternatives Theory

Luk Van Langenhove – Isabella Torta – Ana-Cristina Costea
Globalization is one of the major phenomena challenging the existing world order based upon sovereign states. Societies are more and more confronted with global issues linked to international trade and development, environment and security concerns. One of the main questions is at which level of governance these [...]

Regional Integration and alternatives Theory

Brendan Donegan
This paper presents a Foucauldian reading of regional integration
projects based on the model of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as part of a strategy for the restructuring of national economies along neoliberal lines. Looking at the cases of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the Free Trade Area of the [...]

Regional Integration and alternatives Theory

Yeo Lay Hwee, Singapore Institute of International Affairs
Region-building is on the move in East Asia. The past decade has seen lots of initiatives and movements, especially in the economic realm. Yet, to date there is still no blueprint for East Asia to deepen cooperation and integrate into an East Asian community. An embryonic form [...]

Asia, Regional Integration and alternatives Theory

ALAN R. MULLER
Publication available for download from the website of Erasmus University, Rotterdam

Regional Integration and alternatives Theory