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This book details previous discussions about the concept of global climate governance and its limits.
Stemming from an international and multidisciplinary network of leading specialists, this best-selling text is fully updated with new chapter additions. With the first edition prepared at the end of the last century and the second edition adding inter-regional relations.
Given the reach and scope of the existent literature on the topic of New South American Regionalism (NSRA), there is an important gap concerning its academic exploration in relation to its nature of development, political economic complexity, challenges and orientations. In this sense, this book explores.
The book informs academic as well as non-academic audiences about regional developments in the Americas, in particular those dating back to the last twenty years. Beyond the primary purpose of summarizing the hemisphere's recent trends.
Zahid Shahab Ahmed evaluates the progress of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). This study goes beyond economic integration to present a detailed appraisal of cooperation under the overarching themes of economic cooperation, environmental security, human welfare, and cooperation in security matters.
Mapping Agency provides an empirically rich 'African perspective' on regionalisms in Sub-Saharan Africa. It adopts an actor-centred approach but departs from a rather simplified understanding of agency as exerting power and instead scrutinizes to what extent actors actually participate in or are excluded from processes of regionalism.
This collection seeks to put contemporary China-Africa relations in critical, comparative context and in doing so, it will go beyond descriptions of inter-regional trade and investment, large- and small-scale sectors, to ask whether structural change is underway.
Recent 'great transformations' are characterized by a diffusion of power away from the traditional North Western powers and towards the global South. This volume suggests that the world will witness a new era of interdependent hegemony.
Studies the effectiveness of regional institutions as well as key questions concerning the attempts to overcome serious problems of security, governance and poor economic performance in the Pacific. This book talks about the requirement of a stronger commitment to overcome apparent national problems through regional cooperation.
Offers a coherent picture of strategic, design and political economy aspects of North-South trade negotiation processes, from African, Asian and Latin American perspectives. This title provides negotiators and policy makers in the South with recommendations, best practices, and benchmarks and contribute to the understanding of these processes.
Exploring the formation, evolution and effectiveness of the regional security arrangements of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the author examines a number of vital and troubling questions: Why has SADC struggled to establish a viable security regime? Why has it been unable to engage in successful peacemaking?
Includes themes such as: how regions and cities adapt to a Network Society and a globalized environment, the policies they pursue and how structures of governance are transformed in the pursuit of those policies. This title addresses these issues with specific reference to the Nordic regions of Europe.
Relatively little is known about how regional integration affects poverty. Many suggest that increased investment would be one of the benefits of agreeing on regional integration provisions. This volume examines the channels through which regional integration affects poverty and analyzes empirically the effects on foreign direct investment.
Focuses on Spanish multinational enterprises in Latin America. This volume analyzes the sociological and political consequences of investments and exhibits several theoretical and methodological approaches. This book is for those who want to understand structural reforms, their consequences and the international impact of economic reform.
Takes a comparative approach across space and time to regional organizations in North and South America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. This book describes and explains the genesis and growth of regional organizations. It considers the impact of regional organizations on their member states.
Advances the concept of region building as an alternative to the construction of regions with three issues of region building being explored: Why are regions built in a world of states? How do region building processes take place? And how are regions transforming the present world order?
Combining an analysis of regionalism from a systemic view with a domestic political-economy analysis, this book sheds light on the new dynamics and emerging configurations of regionalisms and interregionalisms in the post-Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Globalization has changed the context for, and the organizational forms of, politics, unleashing forces in support of, and in opposition to, the globalization dynamic. Investigating the dynamics of change and development in two regions of the world economy, Latin America and Asia, this book evaluates these forces, their political dynamics, and the responses of governments and citizens.
Exploring to what extent the BRICS group is a significant actor challenging the global order, this book focuses on the degree and consequence of their emergence and explores how important cooperation is to individual BRICS members¿ foreign policy strategies and potential relevance as leaders in regional and global governance.
Using ethnographic and historical materials, this book expands our knowledge about African development and makes practical suggestions as to how successful development in a complex, yet dynamic continent can be achieved--Provided by publisher.
Investigates the impact that the EU has on regionalization elsewhere through its inter-regional relations. Covering agriculture, trade, ASEAN, NAFTA, MERCOSUR and Commonwealth amongst other topics, this book also investigates whether the EU's contributions, direct and indirect, to increased regional integration in different parts of the world.
Providing the first book-length analysis of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), this volume asks how can it be ensured that the AfCFTA is effectively implemented to deliver inclusive trade in Africa.
This volume provides an unique open inter-disciplinary dialogue across the Humanities and Social Sciences to further our understanding of the phenomenon of regions and regionalism in a globalized world both at the theoretical and empirical levels.
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