The New American Regionalism

Author : Dr Ernesto Vivares
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781409469599

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Exploring the New South American Regionalism (NSAR) by Dr Ernesto Vivares Pdf

This book explores, from a broader perspective than existing literature, the developmental dimensions of the new South American regionalism within a changing hemispheric and world order in transformation. It analyses a set of specific debates: regionalism in the Americas then and now; social and economic development and regional integration; and organized crime, intelligence and defence. An in depth and critical reflection on the complex and heterogeneous path of regionalization taking place in South America from different perspectives and in key issues of regional development.

Author : David Miller,Jen Nelles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351242639

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Discovering American Regionalism by David Miller,Jen Nelles Pdf

Regions are difficult to govern – coordinating policies across local jurisdictional boundaries in the absence of a formal regional government gives rise to enormous challenges. Yet some degree of coordination is almost always essential for local governments to effectively fulfill their responsibilities to their citizens. State and local governments have, over time, awkwardly, and with much experimenting, developed common approaches to regional governance. In this revolutionary new book, authors David Miller and Jen Nelles offer a new way to conceptualize those common approaches: Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (RIGOs) that bring together local governments to coordinate policies across jurisdictional boundaries. RIGOs are not governments themselves, but as Miller and Nelles demonstrate, they do have a measure of political authority that allows them to quietly and sometimes almost invisibly work to further regional interests and mitigate cross-boundary irritations. Providing a new conceptual framework for understanding how regional decision-making has emerged in the U.S., this book will provoke a new and rich era of discussion about American regionalism in theory and practice. Discovering American Regionalism will be a future classic in the study of intergovernmental relations, regionalism, and cross-boundary collaboration.

Author : Heinz Gert Preusse
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781957819

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The New American Regionalism by Heinz Gert Preusse Pdf

'The heart of Professor Preusse's book deals with the two main integration agreements in the Americas, NAFTA and MERCOSUR, and the incipient FTAA. The handling of these three cases is masterful, replete with description, data, theoretical analysis, and opinion . . . His book is a most worthwhile and stimulating read, certainly for those interested in Western Hemisphere developments.' - From the foreword by Sidney Weintraub This book provides a broad quantitative analysis of the new facets of regionalism in the Americas. In particular, major aspects of the New American Regionalism are discussed in terms of two basic notions: the genuine political character of economic integration schemes, and the profound inter-connectedness of the American regions with the global economy.

Author : Howard W. Odum, Harry Estill Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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American Regionalism by Howard W. Odum, Harry Estill Moore Pdf

Author : Howard W. Odum,Harry E. Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1986-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0899847765

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American Regionalism by Howard W. Odum,Harry E. Moore Pdf

Author : JOSÉ BRICEÑO-RUIZ,Andres Rivarola Puntigliano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000220599

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Regionalism in Latin America by JOSÉ BRICEÑO-RUIZ,Andres Rivarola Puntigliano Pdf

This interdisciplinary edited volume explores the political economy of regionalism in Latin America. It identifies convergent forces which have existed in the region since its very conception and analyses these dynamics in their different historical, geographic and structural contexts. Particular attention is paid to key countries such as Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, as well as subregions like the Southern Cone and Central America. To understand the resilience of regionalism in Latin America, this book proposes to highlight four main issues. Firstly, that resilience is linked to mechanisms of self-enforcement that are part of the accumulation of experiences, institution building and common cultural features described in this book as regionalist acquis. Secondly, the elements and driving forces behind the promotion and expression of the regionalist acquis are influenced and shaped by nested systems in which social processes are inserted. Thirdly, when looking at systems, there is a particular influence by national and global ones, which condition the form and endurance of regional projects. Finally, beyond systems, the book highlights the relevance of agents as crucial players in the shaping of the resilience of regionalism in Latin America. This insightful collection will appeal to advanced students and researchers in international economics, international relations, international political economy, economic history and Latin American studies.

Author : Ulf Engel,Heidrun Zinecker,Frank Mattheis,Antje Dietze,Thomas Plötze
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315513751

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The New Politics of Regionalism by Ulf Engel,Heidrun Zinecker,Frank Mattheis,Antje Dietze,Thomas Plötze Pdf

This edited volume approaches regionalism as one potential pattern in a changing global order. Since the end of the Cold War, different forms of territorialization have emerged and we are confronted with an increasing number and variety of actors that are establishing regional projects. This volume offers an innovative contribution to the study of this new complexity by exploring constellations of regional actors, spatial scales and imaginations beyond state-centred perspectives as well as on multiple, often overlapping levels. The chapters analyse the emergence, trajectories and outcomes of regionalisms from the perspective of the Global South, specifically concentrating on regional projects in Latin America and Africa, but also in the Asia-Pacific. They attempt to identify the specific conditions and junctures of different forms of region-making in their external (global) and internal (local/national) dimensions. The volume also places special emphasis on interactions, spatial entanglements and comparisons between regionalisms in different parts of the world. By expanding beyond the perspective of North-South transfers, this book seeks to better understand the dynamics and diversity of interregional interactions. This volume will appeal to scholars of global studies, international political economy, international relations, human geography, and development studies, as well as area studies specialists who focus on Latin America and Africa.

Author : Dr Ernesto Vivares
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781409469612

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Exploring the New South American Regionalism (NSAR) by Dr Ernesto Vivares Pdf

The events and processes that have taken place in the last decade in South America have given way to one of the most interesting regional phenomena under a global crisis and within a changing world order. From the traditional status of Washington´s backyard and reign of economic and political stability, South America has increasingly turned into a region marked by a heterodox development in the light of other dominant regional tendencies of development-the European Union, NAFTA and the Asia Pacific. The political economic nature of the new South American regionalism (NSAR) is far from echoing the dominant interpretations about it, which reflects the major regional projects today. Given the reach and scope of the existing literature on the topic of the NSAR, 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, from a wider and pluralist political economic perspective, the developmental dimensions of the NSAR within a changing hemispheric and world order in transformation. It analyses a set of specific debates: regionalism in the Americas then and now; social and economic development and regional integration; and organized crime, intelligence and defence. An in depth and critical reflection on the complex and heterogeneous path of regionalization taking place in South America from different perspectives and in key issues of regional development.

Author : Charles L. Crow
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470999073

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A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America by Charles L. Crow Pdf

The Blackwell Companion to American Regional Literature is the most comprehensive resource yet published for study of this popular field. The most inclusive survey yet published of American regional literature. Represents a wide variety of theoretical and historical approaches. Surveys the literature of specific regions from California to New England and from Alaska to Hawaii. Discusses authors and groups who have been important in defining regional American literature.

Author : Ernesto Vivares
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317137146

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Exploring the New South American Regionalism (NSAR) by Ernesto Vivares Pdf

The events and processes that have taken place in the last decade in South America have given way to one of the most interesting regional phenomena under a global crisis and within a changing world order. From the traditional status of Washington ́s backyard and reign of economic and political stability, South America has increasingly turned into a region marked by a heterodox development in the light of other dominant regional tendencies of development-the European Union, NAFTA and the Asia Pacific. The political economic nature of the new South American regionalism (NSAR) is far from echoing the dominant interpretations about it, which reflects the major regional projects today. Given the reach and scope of the existing literature on the topic of the NSAR, 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, from a wider and pluralist political economic perspective, the developmental dimensions of the NSAR within a changing hemispheric and world order in transformation. It analyses a set of specific debates: regionalism in the Americas then and now; social and economic development and regional integration; and organized crime, intelligence and defence. An in depth and critical reflection on the complex and heterogeneous path of regionalization taking place in South America from different perspectives and in key issues of regional development.

Author : Douglas Reichert Powell
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469606743

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Critical Regionalism by Douglas Reichert Powell Pdf

The idea of "region" in America has often served to isolate places from each other, observes Douglas Reichert Powell. Whether in the nostalgic celebration of folk cultures or the urbane distaste for "hicks," certain regions of the country are identified as static, insular, and culturally disconnected from everywhere else. In Critical Regionalism, Reichert Powell explores this trend and offers alternatives to it. Reichert Powell proposes using more nuanced strategies that identify distinctive aspects of particular geographically marginal communities without turning them into peculiar "hick towns." He enacts a new methodology of critical regionalism in order to link local concerns and debates to larger patterns of history, politics, and culture. To illustrate his method, in each chapter of the book Reichert Powell juxtaposes widely known texts from American literature and film with texts from and about his own Appalachian hometown of Johnson City, Tennessee. He carries the idea further in a call for a critical regionalist pedagogy that uses the classroom as a place for academic writers to build new connections with their surroundings, and to teach others to do so as well.

Author : Gordon Mace,Louis Bélanger
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1555877176

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The Americas in Transition by Gordon Mace,Louis Bélanger Pdf

The FTA, Mercosur, the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative, NAFTA, the Summit of the Americas - do these constitute building blocks in the construction of a new regional system? This book explores that question, offering an assessment of the state of regionalism in the Americas.

Author : Tom Lutz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 0801489237

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Cosmopolitan Vistas by Tom Lutz Pdf

In a major statement on the relation of art and politics in America, Tom Lutz identifies a consistent ethos at the heart of American literary culture for the past 150 years. Through readings of Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather, Hamlin Garland, Ellen Glasgow, Sarah Orne Jewett, Sinclair Lewis, Edgar Lee Masters, Claude McKay, Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, and others, Lutz identifies what he calls literary cosmopolitanism: an ethos of representational inclusiveness, of the widest possible affiliation, and at the same time one of aesthetic discrimination, and therefore exclusivity.At the same time that it embraces the entire world, in Lutz's view, literary cosmopolitanism necessitates an evaluative stance, and it is this doubleness, this combination of egalitarianism and elitism, that animates American literature since the Civil War. The nineteenth century's realists and sentimentalists, the writers of the Harlem Renaissance and of the Southern Renaissance, the firebrands who brought in the new canon and the traditionalists who struggled to save the old all ascribe, Lutz argues, to the same cosmopolitan values, however much they disagree on what these values demand of those who hold them.

Author : Judith Fetterley,Marjorie Pryse
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0252027671

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Writing Out of Place by Judith Fetterley,Marjorie Pryse Pdf

"In a series of sketches, regionalist writers such as Alice Cary, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Sui Sin Far, and Mary Austin critique the approach to regional subjects characteristic of local color and present narrators who serve as cultural interpreters for persons often considered "out of place" by urban readers. In their approach to these writers, Fetterley and Pryse offer contemporary readers an alternative vantage point from which to consider questions of regions and regionalism in the global economy of our own time."--Jacket.

Author : José Briceño-Ruiz,Isidro Morales
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317077350

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Post-Hegemonic Regionalism in the Americas by José Briceño-Ruiz,Isidro Morales Pdf

Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean has experienced transformations over the last few years. After more than a decade of a hegemonic model based solely on free-market principles, the regional and global transformation that occurred in the first decade of the new millennium modified the way of understanding economic development and the insertion of regional blocs in global affairs. Old initiatives have been reconsidered, new schemes have emerged, and new principles going beyond trade issues have modified the norms and processes of regional economic integration. This book reviews these recent transformations to depict and explain the new trends shaping regional blocs and cooperation in the Americas.