This volume takes the debates on the political economy of regionalization beyond their current stage, utilizing the insight that regionalization entails profound socio-cultural, economic and political restructuring.

List of Maps and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations The Political Economy of Regions and Regionalisms: An Introduction to our Critical, Revisionist Inquiries; M. Bøås, M.H.Marchand & T.M.Shaw Between Bush and Bolivar; Change and Continuity in the Remaking of Mesoamerica; B.Bull European Union-Mercosur Interregionalism: Negotiations, Civil Society and Governance; C.Sanchez Bajo APEC, ASEAN+3 and American Power: The History and Limits of the New Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific ; M.T.Berger & M.Beeson U.S. Hegemony and Regionalism: The Case of East Asia; K.Nordhaug Conflict Management and Constructive Engagement in the Expansion of the Association of South-east Asian Nations; R.Amer Informal Regionalism in the Gulf; A.M.Roald Discordant Discourses: South(ern) African Narratives on Zimbabwe's Crisis; S.J.MacLean The Logic of Disorder: 'Malignant Regionalization' in Central Africa; I.Taylor Conclusion: Projections for the Political Economy of Regions and Regionalisms; M. Bøås, M.H.Marchand & T.M.Shaw Bibliography Index

MORTEN B S is Senior Researcher, Fafo - Institute for Applied International Studies, Oslo, Norway. He has published extensively on African politics, the multilateral system, and regions and regionalization. His most recent books in English include New and Critical Security and Regionalism (co-edited with James J. Hentz), and Global Development and Institutions: Framing the World? (co-edited with Desmond McNeill). MARIANNE H. MARCHAND is Professor of International Relations at the University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico. Her research demonstrates a concern with the pol

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