Latin America as a region, has been losing relevance and agency capacity in the Global Order. Regionalism continues to be a pending task, which is why it is not presented as a unitary actor in the ...Global Order. Therefore, this research aims to analyse the impact that the divergence of the foreign policies of Brazil and Mexico has had on the search for Latin American autonomy. The hypothesis that guides this research is that the impossibility of concerting the foreign policies of Brazil and Mexico has made it difficult for Latin America to present itself as a unitary regional actor in the Global Order, which prevents its autonomy.
En las últimas décadas del siglo XX, la economía política territorial estuvo influenciada por la economía urbana y la economía regional. La primera llamaba la atención sobre el “el triunfo de las ...cuidades” y la segunda sobre la importancia de consolidar “un nuevo regionalismo”. En el transcurso del siglo XXI, en cambio, la economía urbana y regional se han articulado conceptualmente como resultado de la “revolución metropolitana”. El objetivo central del presente artículo es reflexionar sobre las características de este proceso, los posibles impactos y los grandes desafíos. La conclusión, al final, es que la cohesión regional está determinada por una estructura territorial policéntrica funcional, una economía productiva y sostenible y un modelo de gobernanza de múltiples niveles y escalas.
A keen analysis of the impact of European regionalism in the Mediterranean, focusing on the politics of representation and constructions of identity. The Mediterranean - as a region, as an area of EU ...policy and as a place on the fringe of a rapidly integrating Europe - has been a theoretically under-researched area. Containing empirical research on Greece, Malta and Morocco, this theory-led investigation into the political effects of the Mediterranean's symbolic geography, complements work done on the constitution of entities such as nations, Europe and the West.
The Politics of Regional Identity draws on the field of critical IR and critical geopolitics to examine both the theoretical and empirical manifestations of these changing geopolitical images and discourses.
This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of politics, international relations and the European Union.
'Not only a nice contribution to the new field of symbolic geography. It is also a contribution to the movement within the discipline of international relations back to the broad tradition of social science understood as a unitary undertaking that transcends narrow empirical specialisation.' - The Sunday Times
'This book is indispensable both for those who are interested in how discursive constructivism is applied to a specific case(region), and for those who are interested in knowing more about the EU's concrete policies towards the Mediterranean.' - Millennium Review
'The author has tremendous factual knowledge about the EU's institutional development and concrete policies towards the Mediterranean, and she succeeds in presenting knowledge in a coherent and comprehensive manner.' - Ulla Holm, Danish Institute for International Studies
Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Regionalism in IR – theoretical overview 3. Understanding EU hegemony. Levels of Economic development between North and South and the EU’s Mediterranean policies 4. EU Foreign policy as a discursive practice of the Mediterranean 5. Discursive practices of the Mediterranean from Greece, Malta and Morocco. A comparative analysis 6. Which "Mediterranean"? A Comparison of discursive practices from the EU and the case studies 7. Conclusion
La réforme de l'organisation territoriale de la République votée par le Parlement en 2015 a modifié la carte et la dénomination des régions françaises. L'Occitanie est l'une des rares d'entre elles à ...avoir gagné un nom qui avait divisé et fait polémique : il avait été le résumé de revendications culturelles, politiques et sociales orientées contre l'État après le mouvement de Mai 1968. Sa reconversion dans une entité politico-administrative consensuelle amène à s'interroger sur le régionalisme en général et sa fonction historique contemporaine.
This timely Handbook offers a detailed cross-policy assessment on the need, locale and impact of regional cooperation and integration, addressing how the principles of regional integration have ...affected multi-level governance and subsequent public policy. Individual chapters provide explanations of what regional cooperation means in a specific policy area, identify relevant theories, and present empirical evidence to support the arguments outlined.
The international politics of the Middle East fills a major gap in the field of middle eastern political studies by combining international relations theory with concrete case studies. It will be of ...immense benefit to students of middle eastern politics, international relations and comparative politics. The book begins with an overview of the rules and features of the middle east regional system - the arena in which the local states, including Egypt, Turkey, Israrel and Arab states od Syria, Jordan and Iraq, operate. It goes on to analyse foreign policy-making in key states, illustrating how systematic determinants contrain this policy-making, and how these contraints are dealt with in distinctive ways depending on particular domsetic features of the individual states. Finally, the book goes on to look at the outcomes of state policies by examining several major conflicts including the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Gulf War, and the system of regional alignment. The book assesses the impact of international pentrartion in the region, including the hsitorica reasons behind the formation of the regional state system. It also analyses the continued role of the external great powers, such as the United States and the former Soviet Union and explains the process by which the region has besome incorporated into the global capitalist market.
From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West
is fraught with diverse, subversive, and at times downright
eccentric elements. This provocative volume challenges traditional
...readings of western history and literature, and redraws the
boundaries of the American West with absorbing essays ranging
widely on topics from tourism to immigration, from environmental
battles to interethnic relations, and from law to film. Taken
together, the essays reassess the contributions of a diverse and
multicultural America to the West, as they link western issues to
global frontiers. Featuring the latest work by some of the best new
writers both inside and outside academia, the original essays in
Over the Edge confront the traditional field of western
American studies with a series of radical, speculative, and
sometimes outrageous challenges. The collection reads the West
through Ben-Hur and the films of Mae West; revises the
western American literary canon to include the works of African
American and Mexican American writers; examines the implications of
miscegenation law and American Indian blood quantum requirements;
and brings attention to the historical participation of Mexican and
Japanese American women, Native American slaves, and Alaskan
cannery workers in community life.
El propósito del siguiente trabajo es reflexionar respecto del alcance y sentido de las últimas dos décadas transcurridas en la integración regional latinoamericana a nivel intergubernamental. ...Además, se abordan dos esquemas propios del regionalismo posliberal, como son ALBA y Unasur. Dos esquemas que aunque responden a formas diferentes de entender la región, una desde Venezuela, la otra desde Brasil, hasta el momento, no ofrecen grandes resultados, lo cual dista de consolidar, en sentido estricto, un escenario regional poshegemónico. Si a ello se unen factores inalterados, propios de la región, como la polaridad ideológica o el nacionalismo westfaliano, y factores coyunturales como la crisis política y económica actual de Brasil o Venezuela, o la emergencia de iniciativas de nuevo regionalismo como la Alianza del Pacífico, es posible entender el momento de incertidumbre que ha acompañado al regionalismo latinoamericano en las últimas dos décadas.
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