Region Building

Author : Ludger Kühnhardt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781845458386

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Region-building by Ludger Kühnhardt Pdf

After two centuries of nation-building, the world has entered an era of region-building in search of political stability, cultural cohesion, and socio-economic development. Nations involved in the regional structures and integration schemes that are emerging in most regions of the world are deepening their ambitions, with Europe’s integration experience often used as an experimental template or theoretical model. Volume I provides a political-analytical framework for recognizing the central role of the European Union not only as a conceptual model but also a normative engine in the global proliferation of regional integration. It also gives a comprehensive treatment of the focus, motives, and objectives of non-European integration efforts. Volume II offers a unique collection of documents that give the best available overview of the legal and political evolution of region-building based on official documents and stated objectives of the relevant regional groupings across all continents. Together, these volumes are important contributions for understanding the evolution of global affairs in an age when power shifts provide new challenges and opportunities for transatlantic partners and the world community.

Author : Daniel H. Levine,Dawn Nagar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137586117

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Region-Building in Africa by Daniel H. Levine,Dawn Nagar Pdf

This landmark book is the first of its kind to assess the challenges of African region-building and regional integration across all five African sub-regions and more than five decades of experience, considering both political and economic aspects. Leading scholars and practitioners come together to analyze a range of entwined topics, including: the theoretical underpinnings that have informed Africa's regional integration trajectory; the political economy of integration, including the sources of different 'waves' of integration in pan-Africanism and the reaction to neo-liberal economic pressures; the complexities of integration in a context of weak states and the informal regionalization that often occurs in 'borderlands'; the increasing salience of Africa's relationships with rising extra-regional economic powers, including China and India; and comparative lessons from non-African regional blocs, including the EU, ASEAN, and the Southern Common Market. A core argument of this book, running through all chapters, is that region-building must be recognized as a political project as much as if not more than an economic one; successful region-building in Africa will need to include the complex political tasks of strengthening state capacity (including states' capacity as 'developmental states' that can actively engage in economic planning), resolving long-standing conflicts over resources and political dominance, improving democratic governance, and developing trans-national political structures that are legitimate and inclusive.

Author : Yannis Tsantoulis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429559440

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The Geopolitics of Region Building in the Black Sea by Yannis Tsantoulis Pdf

Offering theoretical insights on region building, this book explores the attempts to formulate a political and institutional vision for the Black Sea region in the post-9/11 era and in the context of the enlargements of the EU and NATO. It investigates in depth these attempts, viewed as a failure by the key actors involved, in order to understand how regions emerge in international politics as well as how and why they may fail to come into being. To this end, the book explores a range of factors that impacted region building in the Black Sea, considering the role of region builders involved, their practices and the context of their actions, and the spatial representations and security discourses that were integral to the region building process. Hence, attention is paid to how these factors both enabled and constrained the discursive construction of the Black Sea region, thus identifying the elements that distinguish the Black Sea from other successful cases of region building. Based on critical approaches towards international relations and political geography, this book both expands and deepens the scope and understanding of regions and will thus appeal to academics and students in the fields of International Relations, Security Studies, Political Geography, and Regional Integration.

Author : Chris Saunders,Gwinyayi Albert Dzinesa,Dawn Nagar
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781780321813

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Region-Building in Southern Africa by Chris Saunders,Gwinyayi Albert Dzinesa,Dawn Nagar Pdf

How successful have Southern African states been in dealing with the major issues that have faced the region in recent years? What could be done to produce more cohesive and effective region-building in Southern Africa? In this original and wide-ranging volume, which draws on an interdisciplinary team of mainly African and African-based specialists, the key political, socio-economic, and security challenges facing Southern Africa today are addressed. These include the various issues confronting the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and its institutions; such as HIV/AIDS, migration and xenophobia, land-grabbing and climate change; and the role of the main external actors involved with the region, including the United Nations, the European Union, the United States, and China. The book also looks at the Southern African Customs Union and Southern African Development Finance Institutions, including the Development Bank of Southern Africa and Industrial Development Corporation, and issues of gender and peacebuilding. In doing so, the book goes to the heart of analyzing the effectiveness of SADC and other regional organisation, suggesting how region-building in Southern Africa may be compared with similar attempts elsewhere in Africa and other parts of the world.

Author : Emmanuel Balogun
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429791840

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Region-Building in West Africa by Emmanuel Balogun Pdf

This book examines the role of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) practitioners in coordinating, creating, and managing regional governance practices in the areas of public health, peace and security, and microfinancial integration. Since 1975, there have been many failed and successful attempts at unconstitutional government changes in West Africa. During this same period, numerous instruments have been designed to promote peace and security in the region. This book examines the role of bureaucratic actors in the ECOWAS in harmonizing regional integration policy in West Africa. Using data from fieldwork in several countries in West Africa, Balogun observes how ECOWAS practitioners network and strategically engage regional stakeholders in health, peace and security, and finance as a means to deepen harmonization between ECOWAS Member States and build a connection with civil society. Balogun argues that the founding conditions of ECOWAS set the organization on an institutional path to adapt its approaches to regional governance. Region-Building in West Africa challenges the idea that self-interested leaders limit regional cooperation. The book also challenges the idea that the bureaucrats in the organization are glorified servants to their governments. Region-Building in West Africa instead focuses on the influence that bureaucrats have in shaping the international policy agenda of ECOWAS. This book will be useful to scholars, students, and practitioners in Africa and beyond who want to better understand the inner workings of African regional organizations, and the processes that drive cooperation across West Africa.

Author : Professor James W. Scott
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409487159

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EU Enlargement, Region Building and Shifting Borders of Inclusion and Exclusion by Professor James W. Scott Pdf

The 2004 entry of 10 Central and Eastern European countries, along with Malta and Cyprus, into the EU has caused a huge shift in the EU's external boundaries. The socio-economic and political transformations that this shift has caused not only suggest new regional development opportunities, but also many potential problems and tensions. While the EU insists that enlargement will not signify 'new divisions', processes of inclusion and exclusion and the imposition of visa restrictions on non-EU citizens could pose obstacles to co-operation, conjuring fears of an emerging 'fortress Europe' that effectively divides the continent. Illustrated with case studies from Central and Eastern European border areas, this book examines capacities for region building across national borders in within the context of EU enlargement, synthesizing the various insights provided by local information and suggesting ways forward for the future development of the EU's 'Wider Europe' strategy.

Author : F. Söderbaum,T. Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781403938794

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Theories of New Regionalism by F. Söderbaum,T. Shaw Pdf

Theories of New Regionalism represents the first systematic attempt to bring together leading theories of new regionalism. Major theorists from around the world develop their own distinctive theoretical perspectives, spanning new regionalism & world order approaches along with regional governance, liberal institutionalism & neoclassical development regionalism, to regional security complex theory (RSCT) and the region-building approach.

Author : J. Augusteijn,H. Storm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137271303

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Region and State in Nineteenth-Century Europe by J. Augusteijn,H. Storm Pdf

In reaction to the centralizing nation-building efforts of states in nineteenth-century Europe, many regions began to define their own identity. In thirteen stimulating essays, specialists analyze why regional identities became widely celebrated towards the end of that century and why some considered themselves part of the new national self-image.

Author : Tine Hanrieder
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191016257

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International Organization in Time by Tine Hanrieder Pdf

International Organization in Time investigates why reformers often pledge to unify international organizations (IOs), but end up fragmenting them instead. The book reconstructs the institutional history of the World Health Organization (WHO) since its creation in 1946. It theorizes the fragmentation trap, which is both a cause and a consequence of reform failure in the WHO. A comparison between the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) illustrates the relevance of path dependence and fragmentation across the United Nations (UN) system. As the UN approaches its 70th anniversary, this book helps to understand the path dependent dynamics that reformers encounter in international organizations.

Author : Zenel Garcia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000436631

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China’s Western Frontier and Eurasia by Zenel Garcia Pdf

China has emerged as a dominant power in Eurasian affairs that not only exercises significant political and economic power, but increasingly, ideational power too. Since the founding of the People’s Republic, Chinese Communist Party leaders have sought to increase state capacity and exercise more effective control over their western frontier through a series of state-building initiatives. Although these initiatives have always incorporated an international component, the collapse of the USSR, increasing globalization, and the party’s professed concerns about terrorism, separatism, and extremism have led to a region-building project in Eurasia. Garcia traces how domestic elite-led narratives about security and development generate state-building initiatives, and then region-building projects. He also assesses how region-building projects are promoted through narratives of the historicity of China’s engagement in Eurasia, the promotion of norms of non-interference, and appeals to mutual development. Finally, he traces the construction of regions through formal and informal institutions as well as integrative infrastructure. By presenting three phases of Chinese domestic state-building and region-building from 1988-present, Garcia shows how region-building projects have enabled China to increase state capacity, control, and development in its western frontier. Recommended for scholars of China’s international relations and development policy.

Author : Zeki Kütük
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : European Union
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112189050

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Turkey's Integration Into the European Union by Zeki Kütük Pdf

Author : Olav Schram Stokke,Geir Hønneland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134149285

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International Cooperation and Arctic Governance by Olav Schram Stokke,Geir Hønneland Pdf

A new exploration of the impacts of Arctic regimes in such vital areas as pollution, biodiversity, indigenous affairs, health and climate change. The post-Cold War era has seen an upsurge in interest in Arctic affairs. With new international regimes targeting Arctic issues at both the global and regional levels, the Northern areas seem set to play an increasingly prominent role in the domestic and foreign policies of the Arctic states and actors – not least Russia, the USA and the EU. This volume clearly distinguishes between three key kinds of impact: effectiveness, defined as mitigation or removal of specific problems addressed by a regime political mobilization, highlighting changes in the pattern of involvement and influence in decision making on Arctic affairs region building, understood as contributions by Arctic institutions to denser interactive or discursive connectedness among the inhabitants of the region. Empirically, the main focus is on three institutions: the Arctic Council, the Barents Euro-Arctic Region and the Council of the Baltic Sea States. International Cooperation and Arctic Governance is essential reading for all students with an interest in Arctic affairs and their impact on global society.

Author : Jay Pitter,John Lorinc
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781770564435

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Subdivided by Jay Pitter,John Lorinc Pdf

Using Toronto as a case study, Subdivided asks how cities would function if decision-makers genuinely accounted for race, ethnicity, and class when confronting issues such as housing, policing, labor markets, and public space. With essays contributed by an array of city-builders, it proposes solutions for fully inclusive communities that respond to the complexities of a global city. Jay Pitter is a writer and professor based in Toronto. She holds a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University. John Lorinc is a Toronto-based journalist who writes about urban affairs, politics, and business. He co-edited The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood (Coach House, 2015).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Civil service
ISBN : UOM:39015085425802

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Pamphlet by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : California
ISBN : UGA:32108011850222

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History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft Pdf