Regions and Development: Politics, Security and Economics

by Page,Sheila; Page,Sheila

• ISBN13: 9780714650234
• ISBN10: 0714650234
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Why do countries come together in regions? Why do some regions succeed? Are regions economic or political tools, for development or for negotiation? At the 1996 EADI Conference, the papers presented in the World Trade and Trade Policy workshop looked at the new trends in regionalism from a variety of points of view for different institutions. They were searching for the effects of regions, for their implications for policy and performance in the developing countries and for international economic institutions, and trying to interpret them in terms of economic and political theory. It is too early to reach structured conclusions. The regions are too new, and evidence on their success and their effects is still limited. Three conclusions start to emerge: there is some evidence for a more widespread interest in formal regional organisations, although these are taking too wide a range of forms to be treated as a single phenomenon. The general analyses and comparisons of regions suggest that studying trademotives and effects is not enough; regionalism is a political decision, although some of the individual studies find significant economic effects. Other forces and influences in international relations remain important, and cut across regional interests.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	vii
List of Contributors	viii
Introduction	1	(6)
Sheila Page
PART I: REGIONALISATION AND GLOBALISATION
Globalisation and Regional Integration	7	(37)
Sandro Sideri
Development, Security and World Order: A Regionalist Approach	44	(23)
Bjorn Hettne
Intensity Measures for Regional Groups	67	(23)
Sheila Page
A New Theoretical Challenge-Regionalism and Institutional Change: The Cases of East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa	90	(23)
Philippe Hugon
PART II: REGIONS AMONG DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Regional Integration among Unequal States: The European Union and the Southern African Development Community Compared	113	(26)
Stephen F. Burgess
`Qwerty Worlds' and South Africa's Preference Formation: Ideas and Policy-Making in Transitional South Africa	139	(24)
James J. Hentz
APEC and the World Trade Organization: Does Regional Integration Strengthen the Global Trade Regime?	163	(27)
Heribert Dieter
EU-APEC Foreign Direct Investment: A Case of Interregional Relations	190	(24)
Siegfried Schultz
Regionalism and Trade Globalisation in Latin America: Options and Challenges	214	(13)
Claude Auroi
CEFTA: Training for Integration	227	(14)
Katarzyna Zukrowska
PART III: GOING BEYOND REGIONS
The Global Involvement of Small Island Developing States	241	(14)
Lino Briguglio
Trade Issues after the Uruguay Round	255	(16)
Meine Pieter van Dijk
Index	271