Regional Integration and Alternatives Theory
Challenges of Regional Integration
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 industri...
Alternative Regionalisms and Civil Society: Setting a Research Agenda
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 ...
Regionalisms Futures: The Challenges for Civil Society
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 th...
Alternative Regionalisms: Why and How?
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 th...
Rethinking the Trading System
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....
The Ascent of Regional Integration
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 secu...
Governmental Regionalism: Power/ Knowledge and Neoliberal Regional Integration in Asia and Latin America
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 Econom...
Realism and reactive regionalism: where is east asian regionalism heading?
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 E...
The Rise of Regionalism: Core Company Strategies under the Second Wave of Integration
ALAN R. MULLER Publication available for download from the website of Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Strategies for an alternative globalisation
International Metalworkers’ Federation Development of an alternative economic program has been a major priority for the IMF and its affiliates under the 2001-2005 Action Program. The topic has been discussed thoroughly at many IMF meetings at the world, regional and sectoral level with the aim ...
New regionalism(s) in the global political economy. Conceptual understanding in historical perspective
Shaun Breslina and Richard Higgottb This paper places the contemporary study of regionalism in historical context. It argues that the study of regionalism has occurred in two waves. The first gathered pace as a sub-field of International Relations from the late 1950s and the second emerged in the...
Globalization, Regionalism and Social Policy
Paul Wilding This paper explores the implications of globalization for social policy, and teases out those elements of globalization which have impinged most on it. Then it explores the most important ways in which globalization has had an effect on social policy. Seven issues are explored—the wa...
Towards sustainable economies: challenging neoliberal economic globalisation
Friends of the Earth International Trade exists. But present trade flows are not the ones that we envision for our peoples. Trade should be gender-fair, equitable, environmentally sustainable and just. There should be a redistribution of resources and power from the rich to the poor. >Download PDF
The New Regionalism
Allan Wallis In her book, Medieval People, Eileen Powers describes the everyday lives of individuals living in the Middle Ages. She begins her study by asking the deceptively simple question, how did people know they were medieval? Clearly, they could not open the morning paper or turn on the eve...
Transnational advocacy networks in international and regional politics
Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink World politics at the end of the twentieth century involves, alongside states, many non-state national actors who interact with each other, with states, and with international organizations. This article considers how these interactions are structured in netwo...
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