http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:18:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4817&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-eu-as-a-template-for-asean http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4817#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 09:08:13 +0000 PAAR-APRA http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4817 Authors: Edward Moxon-Browne, University of Limerick, and Philomena Murray, University of Melbourne Is the EU a template for regional integration in Southeast Asia? Caution is required in seeking to propose a model. Comparisons can be made between the decision-making structures in ASEAN and the EU, but, given the unique circumstances of each regional project, analogies between the [...]]]> http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?feed=rss2&p=4817 0 http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4811&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=would-a-euro-area-banking-union-have-saved-cyprus http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4811#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:02:31 +0000 PAAR-APRA http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4811 Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer Whether a euro area banking union would have saved Cyprus from its recent TROIKA (of European Commission, European Central Bank and IMF) tragic treatment is a very interesting question. If it would, then clearly a move towards a banking union, as part of the construction of a political union should be [...]]]> http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?feed=rss2&p=4811 0 http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4706&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rethinking-asean-integration http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4706#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:03:13 +0000 PAAR-APRA http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4706 By Mong Palatino The advantages of a united ASEAN are easy to imagine. A cohesive ASEAN would likely bring tremendous benefits to Southeast Asians in the forms of more jobs, more tourists, stronger defense forces and improved camaraderie among competing neighbors. Besides, who would oppose the idea of unity and greater economic coordination in the region?  But [...]]]> http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?feed=rss2&p=4706 0 http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4715&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=states-of-sovereignty-and-regional-integration-in-the-andes http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4715#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:12:43 +0000 PAAR-APRA http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4715 by Amanda Latimer The trajectory of trade negotiations between the European Union and the Comunidad Andina de Naciones can be seen as an expression of the contemporary character of dependency between the two regions and of the conflict between competing strategies of integration within the Andean region itself. The first strategy reinforces current patterns of accumulation [...]]]> http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?feed=rss2&p=4715 0 http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4699&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-people-and-aseans-complicated-relationship http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4699#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:21:15 +0000 PAAR-APRA http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4699 By Yuyun Wahyuningru When you sign up for Facebook, you will be asked to state your relationship status. Facebook provides the following choices: single, married, engaged, divorced and it’s complicated. The later is, perhaps, what is merrily–and ridiculously–playing in between the ASEAN and the civil society. This state is a result of too many complicated forces that [...]]]> http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?feed=rss2&p=4699 0 http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4679&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=carving-spaces-for-peoples-participation-in-asean http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4679#comments Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:36:38 +0000 PAAR-APRA http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4679 By Jenina Joy Chavez The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is 45 years old, but it has yet to enjoy wide recognition and support from the ASEAN populace. Many explanations have been offered for this, not least of which is the distance of the regional formation from the people that it is supposed to represent [...]]]> http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?feed=rss2&p=4679 0 http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4769&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reclaiming-sadc-for-peoples-development http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4769#comments Sun, 09 Sep 2012 05:17:06 +0000 PAAR-APRA http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4769 By Thomas Deve*, 9 September 2012   SADC heads of states who met in Maputo a few weeks ago were told in no uncertain terms by civil society and social movements that the citizens of region are not happy with the increased incidence of undemocratic governance and impunity of the corporate sector especially in the operations of [...]]]> http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?feed=rss2&p=4769 0 http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4757&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-2012-sadc-peoples-summit-report http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4757#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2012 04:54:39 +0000 PAAR-APRA http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4757 THE 2012 SADC PEOPLE’S SUMMIT REPORT “Reclaiming SADC for People’s Development – A People’s SADC Myth or Reality?” Table of Contents About SAPSN Contextualization 1. Introduction 2. Opening and Introductory Remarks 3. Key Note Addresses: A People’s SADC Myth or Reality 3.1 From Liberation Struggles to the Building of Social Movements in SADC Countries 4. Democracy and Human [...]]]> http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?feed=rss2&p=4757 0 http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4761&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-peoples-sadc-myth-or-reality http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4761#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:05:08 +0000 PAAR-APRA http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4761 By Thomas Deve Summary of Key note speech during SADC People’s Summit in Mozambique (August 2012) In his Key note address, Thomas Deve delivered a brief but powerful keynote address to the audience gathered at the summit. He outlined the 2012 theme in the context of growing frustration from the citizens on their continued marginalization and exclusion [...]]]> http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?feed=rss2&p=4761 0 http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4743&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=communique-from-the-eighth-sadc-peoples-summit-mozambique-15-16-august-2012 http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4743#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2012 04:33:41 +0000 PAAR-APRA http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?p=4743 We the more than 250 representatives of grassroots movements, community-based organizations, peasant and small farmers movements, faith based organizations, women’s organizations, labour, student, youth, economic justice and human rights networks and other social movements met in Mumemo centre, Maracuene, Mozambique, from 15-16 August at the eighth People’s Summit incorporating the People’s Dialogue organized by the [...]]]> http://www.alternative-regionalisms.org/?feed=rss2&p=4743 0