Regional Integration and Modernity (eBook, PDF)

Cross-Atlantic Perspectives
Redaktion: Doyle, Natalie J.; Sebesta, Lorenza

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a new framework for comparing experiences of integration: regionalization must be reinterpreted as an aspect of modernization, modernization unfolding also at the local, national and global levels. The contributors discuss how and why the different visions of modernity that inform modernization projects encouraged the construction (or rejection) of regional integration, at different times and in different places. It starts with an analysis of plans for the economic integration of Europe in the aftermath of World War I. It shows how integration was identified as the means to modernize the region with a view to helping it overcome political fragmentation and adapt to new conditions of global capitalism. It then turns to the debate on modernization unfolding in the era that constituted the formative period of integration for both Europe and Latin America. It analyses examples of the complex interaction between these two different experiences, as it extends into the present. Finally, it looks at the social and political actors that promoted integration in the two regions and at the discourse they formulated to do so.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216348139
• Artikelnr.: 74846215

Autorenporträt

Natalie J. Doyle is senior lecturer in French and European studies at Monash University and deputy director of the Monash European and European Union Centre. Lorenza Sebesta, historian, is Jean Monnet professor ad personam at the campus of the University of Bologna in Buenos Aires.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Interwar plans for European economic integration: an overview
Pierre Tilly and Michel Dumoulin
Chapter 2: International municipalism between the wars: local government as
modernizing actors
Mariana Luna Pont
Chapter 3: Talcott Parsons, Carl J. Friedrich and the conceptualization of
regional integration
Flora Anderson
Chapter 4: Theories of modernization in Latin America
José Paradiso
Chapter 5: Alexandre Kojève and the re-invention of modernity: the European
Communities as the "End of History"
Lorenza Sebesta
Chapter 6: Judicial globalization: the dialogue between the Inter-American
and European Courts of Human Rights
Beatriz Larrain
Chapter 7: Agencies to modernize integration? The European Union and
Mercosur as case studies
Sandra Negro
Chapter 8: Government-industry relations in Argentina: trade decisions in
Mercosur
Luciana Gil
Chapter 9: Multinational companies and the peripheral automotive spacein
Mercosur
Martin Obaya
Chapter 10: The de-politicizing logic of European economic integration
Natalie Doyle