Regionalism and Governance in the Americas: Continental Drift

by L. Fawcett (Editor), M. Serrano (Editor)

Overview

This book links contemporary thinking on global and regional governance to the recent experience of the Americas. It offers fresh insights into understanding the processes of order and change in the region, and in the broader international system. A particular concern is to reveal the changing contours of regional governance, whether in terms of actors, issue areas and relations with global structures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403945228
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/06/2005
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

RICHARD FEINBERG Professor of International Political Economy, University of California, San Diego, USA ANDREW HURRELL Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University, UK IGNACIO LABAQUI Assistant Professor of Latin American Politics, Universidad Catolica, Argentina ROBERTO KORZENIEWICZ Ford Foundation, USA NEIL S. MACFARLANE Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford, UK DAVID PION-BERLIN University of California, USA LORENA RUANO Research Professor, CIDE, Mexico WILLIAM C. SMITH Professor of Political Science, University of Miami, USA BLANCA TORRES Research Professor, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico DIANA TUSSIE Director of the Research Programme on International Economic Institutions, FLACSO, Argentina GUSTAVO VEGA-CANOVAS Professor, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico LAURENCE WHITEHEAD Fellow in Politics, Nuffield College, Oxford

Table of Contents

List of Tables Notes on Contributors Preface: Contextualizing US-Latin American Relations; R.Feinberg Introduction; L.Fawcett & M.Serrano Regionalism and Governance: A Critique; M.Serrano PART I: CONTINENTAL REGIONALISMS The Origins and Development of the Regional Idea in the Americas; L.Fawcett The European Union and Regional Integration in the Americas; L.Ruano PART II: FROM FREE TRADE TO ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE IN THE AMERICAS The Free Trade Area of the Americas: The Hunt for the Hemispheric Grand Bargain; D.Tussie & I.Labaqui Regional Governance: The Case of Dispute Settlement in NAFTA; G.Vega-Cánovas PART III: THE POLITICS OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY OPPOSITION Transnational Actors and NAFTA: The Search for Coalitions on Labour and the Environment; B.Torres Transnational Civil Society Actors and Regional Governance in the Americas: Elite Projects and Collective Action from Below; R.P.Korzeniewicz & W.C.Smith PART IV: DEMOCRACY AND HEGEMONY: THE GOVERNANCE OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE Democratisation and Human Rights in the Americas: Should the Jury Still be Out?; L.Whitehead Hegemony and Regional Governance in the Americas; A.Hurrell PART V: REGIONAL GOVERNANCE AND THE SECURITY OF THE AMERICAS Sub-Regional Cooperation, Hemispheric Threat: Security in the Southern Cone; D.Pion-Berlin Security Regulation or Community? Canada, Mexico and the Borders of Identity; N.S.MacFarlane & M.Serrano Conclusion: The Americas and Regional Disintegration; M.Serrano Index