Regionalism

Regionalism

Embracing mainstream international law, this section on regionalism explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.

Regionalism and Europe

There is an entry on regionalism in the European legal encyclopedia.

Regional Courts

Resources and International Decisions:

• African Courts: African Courts, CEMAC Court of Justice, COMESA Court of Justice, African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, African Court of Justice and Human Rights, Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States, East African Court of Justice, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, OHADA Common Court of Justice and Arbitration, Special Court for Sierra Leone, WAEMU Court of Justice, African Court of Justice (ACJ).
• American Courts: American Courts, Court of Justice of the Andean Community, Caribbean Court of Justice, Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, Central American Court of Justice, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, NAFTA Dispute Settlement Panels.
• European Courts: European Courts, Court of First Instance of the European Union, Benelux Court of Justice, Court of Justice of the European Union, European Court of Human Rights, European Free Trade Agreement Court, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

Resources

See Also

regional integration, regional trade agreements, preferential trading arrangements, free trade area, common market, intergovernmentalism, Global Political Economy, European Union

Further Reading

• Entry “Regionalism” in the work “A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union from Aachen to Zollverein”, by Rodney Leach (Profile Books; London)
• The entry “regionalism” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press
• Balassa, B. (1961) Towards a Theory of Economic Integration. Kyklos (14) (1), 1–17.
• Bhagwati, J. (1992) Regionalism versus Multilateralism. The World Economy (15) (5), 535–56.
• Bornschier, V. (ed.) (2000) State-Building in Europe: The Revitalization of Western European Integration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Boyer, Robert (1996) The Convergence Hypothesis Revisited: Globalization But Still the Century of Nations? In S. Berger and Ronald Dore (eds.) National Diversity and Global Capitalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, pp. 29–59.
• Breslin, S. (2010) Comparative Theory, China, and the Future of East Asian Regionalism(s). Review of International Studies (36) (3), 709–29.
• Breslin, S., Hughes, C.W., Phillips, N., and Rosamond, B. (eds.) (2002) New Regionalisms in the Global Political Economy: Theories and Cases. London: Routledge.
• Cameron, M.A., and Tomlin, B.W. (2000) The Making of NAFTA: How the Deal Was Done. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
• Caporaso, J. (1998) Regional Integration Theory: Understanding Our Past and Anticipating Our Future. Journal of European Public Policy (5) (1), 1–16.
• Caporaso, J.A., and Tarrow, S. (2009) Polanyi in Brussels: Supranational Institutions and the Transnational Embedding of Markets. International Organization (63) (4), 593–620.
• Cerny, P.G. (1995) Globalization and the Changing Logic of Collective Action. International Organization (49) (4), 595–625.
• Coleman, W.D., and Underhill, G.R.D. (eds.) (1998) Regionalism and Global Economic Integration: Europe, Asia, and the Americas. London: Routledge.
• Corrales, J., and Feinberg, R.E. (1999) Regimes of Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere: Power, Interests, and Intellectual Traditions. International Studies Quarterly (43) (1), 1–36.
• Drezner, D.W. (2001) Globalization and Policy Convergence. International Studies Review (3) (1), 53–78.
• Fawcett, L., and Hurrell, A. (eds.) (1995) Regionalism in World Politics: Regional Organization and International Order. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Feng, Y., and Genna, G.M. (2003) Regional Integration and Domestic Institutional Homogeneity: A Comparative Analysis of Regional Integration in the Americas, Pacific Asia and Western Europe. Review of International Political Economy (10) (2), 278–309.
• Frankel, J.A. (1998) The Regionalization of the World Economy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Frieden, Jeffry A. (1991) Invested Interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World of Global Finance. International Organization (45) (4), 425–51.
• Gilpin, R. (2001) Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Grieco, J.M. (1997) Systemic Sources of Variation in Regional Institutionalization in Western Europe, East Asia, and the Americas. In E.D. Mansfield, and H.V. Milner (eds.) The Political Economy of Regionalism. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 164–87.
• Haas, E.B. (1958a) The Uniting of Europe: Political, Social, and Economical Forces, 1950–1957. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
• Haas, E.B. (1958b) The Challenge of Regionalism. International Organization (12) (3), 440–58.
• Haas, E.B. (1975) The Obsolescence of Regional Integration Theory (Institute of International Studies Research Series No. 25). Berkeley: University of California.
• Hertz, R., and Leuffen, D. (2011) Too Big to Run? Analysing the Impact of Enlargement on the Speed of EU Decision-Making. European Union Politics (12) (2), 193–215.
• Hester, A., and Beaulieu, E. (2003) The New Wave of Trade Agreements in the Americas: Regionalism Converging to Globalization. In A. Hülsemeyer, (ed.) Globalization in the Twenty-First Century: Convergence or Divergence?Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 134–50.
• Hettne, B., Inotai, A., and Sunkel, O. (eds.) (1999) Globalism and the New Regionalism. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Huelsemeyer, A. (2004) Toward Deeper North American Integration: A Customs Union? (Canadian American Public Policy Paper No. 59). Orono, ME: Canadian American Center, University of Maine.
• Hülsemeyer, A. (2004) Globalization and Institutional Adjustment: Federalism as an Obstacle? Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
• Kaltenthaler, K., and Mora, F.O. (2002) Explaining Latin American Economic Integration: The Case of Mercosur. Review of International Political Economy (9) (1), 72–97.
• Katzenstein, P.J. (1996) Regionalism in Comparative Perspective. Cooperation and Conflict (31) (2), 123–59.
• Keohane, R.O. and Milner, H.V. (eds.) (1996) Internationalization and Domestic Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Laursen, F. (ed.) (2003) Comparative Regional Integration: Theoretical Perspectives. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
• Mansfield, E.D., and Milner, H.V. (1999) The New Wave of Regionalism. International Organization (53) (3), 589–627.
• Mattli, W. (1999) The Logic of Regional Integration: Europe and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Mayer, F.W. (1998) Interpreting NAFTA: The Science and Art of Political Analysis. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Milner, H. (2006) YES to the Europe I Want; NO to This One: Some Reflections on France’s Rejection of the EU Constitution. PS: Political Science and Politics (39) (2), 257–68.
• Moravcsik, A. (1998) The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
• Moravcsik, A. (1991) Negotiating the Single European Act: National Interests and Conventional Statecraft in the European Community. International Organization (45) (1), 19–56.
• Moravcsik, A., and Schimmelfennig, F. (2008) Liberal Intergovernmentalism. In A. Wiener and T. Diez (eds.) European Integration Theory, 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 67–87.
• Mundell, R.A. (1961) A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas. American Economic Review (51) (4), 657–65.
• Murphy, C. (1994) International Organization and Industrial Change: Global Governance since 1850. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Narrine, S. (2002) Explaining ASEAN: Regionalism in Southeast Asia. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.
• Niemann, A. with Schmitter, P. (2008) Neofunctionalism. In A. Wiener and T. Diez (eds.) European Integration Theory, 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 45–66.
• North, D.C. (1990) Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Oates, W.E. (1972) Fiscal Federalism. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
• Odum, H.W., and Moore, H.E. (1966) American Regionalism: A Cultural-Historical Approach to National Integration (reprint of the 1938 edn). Gloucester, MA: P. Smith.
• Olson, M. (1971) The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Palan, R. (ed.) (2000) Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories. London: Routledge.
• Phillips, N. (2004) The Southern Cone Model: The Political Economy of Regional Capitalist Development in Latin America. London: Routledge.
• Pierson, P. (1996) The Path to European Integration: A Historical Institutionalist Analysis. Comparative Political Studies (29) (2), 123–63.
• Ravenhill, J. (2001) APEC and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Russett, B.M. (1975) International Regions and the International System: A Study in Political Ecology (reprint of the 1967 edn by Rand McNally). Westport, CT: Greenwood.
• Söderbaum, F., and Shaw, T.M. (eds.) (2003) Theories of Regionalism: A Palgrave Reader. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Solingen, E. (2008) The Genesis, Design, and Effects of Regional Institutions: Lessons from East Asia and the Middle East. International Studies Quarterly (52) (2), 261–94.
• Thomas, K.P., and Tetréault, M.A. (eds.) (1999) Racing to Regionalize: Democracy, Regionalism, and Regional Political Economy. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.
• Värynen, R. (2003) Regionalism: Old and New. International Studies Review (5) (1), 25–51.
• Viner, J. (1950) The Customs Union Issue. New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
• Webber, D. (2003) Two Funerals and a Wedding? The Ups and Downs of Regionalism in East Asia and Asia Pacific after the Asian Crisis. In F. Laursen (ed.) Comparative Regional Integration: Theoretical Perspectives. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, pp. 125–57.

Hierarchical Display of Regionalism

Politics > Political framework > Political ideology
Politics > Executive power and public service > Administrative structures > Autonomy
Politics > Politics and public safety > Trends of opinion > Autonomous movement
Politics > Executive power and public service > Administrative structures > Decentralisation
Politics > Executive power and public service > Administrative structures > Regionalisation
Politics > Political party > Political parties > Regionalist party
Politics > Political framework > State > Regional State

Regionalism

Concept of Regionalism

See the dictionary definition of Regionalism.

Characteristics of Regionalism

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Resources

Translation of Regionalism

• Spanish: Regionalismo
• French: Régionalisme
• German: Regionalismus
• Italian: Regionalismo
• Portuguese: Regionalismo
• Polish: Regionalizm

Thesaurus of Regionalism

Politics > Political framework > Political ideology > Regionalism
Politics > Executive power and public service > Administrative structures > Autonomy > Regionalism
Politics > Politics and public safety > Trends of opinion > Autonomous movement > Regionalism
Politics > Executive power and public service > Administrative structures > Decentralisation > Regionalism
Politics > Executive power and public service > Administrative structures > Regionalisation > Regionalism
Politics > Political party > Political parties > Regionalist party > Regionalism
Politics > Political framework > State > Regional State > Regionalism

See also

• Autonomy
• Autonomous movement
• Decentralisation
• Regionalisation
• Regionalist party
• Regional State