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This title was first published in 2003. This volume advances our
understanding of how Southern Africa is currently being
reconfigured, critically examining what has been marketed as the
"flagship" of the Spatial Development Initiative programme in
Southern Africa: the Maputo Development Corridor (MDC). By
examining a variety of cross-cutting levels of governance and
development and by focusing on the nexus between the formal and
informal processes that stake out the MDC, this volume contributes
to a detailed understanding of what is perhaps the most important
current experiment in regionalism in Africa. By engaging regional
processes on the micro-level and "on the ground", there is a
special emphasis on how local communities regard and respond to the
Corridor initiative. All chapters in the volume are the result of
extensive fieldwork in both Mozambique and South Africa, and the
contributions are drawn from the region and beyond, including
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Sweden and the United
States.
This title was first published in 2003. This volume advances our
understanding of how Southern Africa is currently being
reconfigured, critically examining what has been marketed as the
"flagship" of the Spatial Development Initiative programme in
Southern Africa: the Maputo Development Corridor (MDC). By
examining a variety of cross-cutting levels of governance and
development and by focusing on the nexus between the formal and
informal processes that stake out the MDC, this volume contributes
to a detailed understanding of what is perhaps the most important
current experiment in regionalism in Africa. By engaging regional
processes on the micro-level and "on the ground", there is a
special emphasis on how local communities regard and respond to the
Corridor initiative. All chapters in the volume are the result of
extensive fieldwork in both Mozambique and South Africa, and the
contributions are drawn from the region and beyond, including
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Sweden and the United
States.
This edited volume transcends conventional state-centric and
formalistic notions of regionalism and theorizes, conceptualizes
and analyzes the complexities and contradictions of regionalization
processes in contemporary Africa. The collection not only unpacks
and theorizes the African state-society complex with regard to new
regionalism, but also explicitly integrates the often neglected
discourse of human security and human development. In so doing, the
book moves the discussion of new regionalism forward at the same
time as it adds important insights to security and development. It
is organized into three parts. Part I theorizes, conceptualizes and
analyzes the new regionalism in Africa from the point of view of
the region (e.g. West, East, Central and Southern Africa). The
national perspectives in Part II focus on the new regionalism in
Africa from the point of view of particular countries or specific
state-society complexes, such as Kenya, the Democratic Republic of
the Congo (DRC), the enclave of Cabinda, Angola and Zambia. Part
III contains two concluding chapters that tie the main threads of
the volume together, theoretically and empirically, and discuss the
contribution of the analytical framework, the new regionalism
approach (NRA) to the larger study of regionalism.
This edited volume transcends conventional state-centric and
formalistic notions of regionalism and theorizes, conceptualizes
and analyzes the complexities and contradictions of regionalization
processes in contemporary Africa. The collection not only unpacks
and theorizes the African state-society complex with regard to new
regionalism, but also explicitly integrates the often neglected
discourse of human security and human development. In so doing, the
book moves the discussion of new regionalism forward at the same
time as it adds important insights to security and development. It
is organized into three parts. Part I theorizes, conceptualizes and
analyzes the new regionalism in Africa from the point of view of
the region (e.g. West, East, Central and Southern Africa). The
national perspectives in Part II focus on the new regionalism in
Africa from the point of view of particular countries or specific
state-society complexes, such as Kenya, the Democratic Republic of
the Congo (DRC), the enclave of Cabinda, Angola and Zambia. Part
III contains two concluding chapters that tie the main threads of
the volume together, theoretically and empirically, and discuss the
contribution of the analytical framework, the new regionalism
approach (NRA) to the larger study of regionalism.
This book has two mutually reinforcing aims/parts. The first aim is
to contribute to a more productive debate between different
theoretical standpoints. There is surprisingly little theoretical
and conceptual debate in this burgeoning field, which is one major
reason for the failure to fully grasp the diversity of today's
interregionalism. Too often theorists speak past each other,
without really engaging with alternative theoretical perspectives
or competing research results. Indeed, this book constitutes the
first systematic attempt to bring together leading theories and
theorists of interregionalism. Leading scholars from around the
world develop their own distinctive theoretical perspectives on
interregionalism, with a particular emphasis on the dynamic
relationship between regionalism and interregionalism. These highly
acclaimed theorists have all been associated over the years with a
variety of disciplines, institutions, schools and debates and so
bring a rich set of insights and connections to this pioneering
project. The second part of the book 'unpacks' and problematises
the region, the driving actors and institutions that are engaged in
interregional relations. There is a strong tendency in the field to
treat regions as coherent units actors in an interregional
relationship, and such simplified notions about 'regions' and
'regional organisations' necessarily result in superficial and
misleading understandings of interregionalism. This part of the
book connects the theoretical discussion in the first part with a
manageable empirical object.
Since the late 1980s, there has been a global upsurge of various
forms of regionalist projects. The widening and deepening of the
European Union (EU) is the most prominent example, but there has
also been a revitalization or expansion of many other regionalist
projects as well, such as the African Union (AU), the Association
of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). More
or less every government in the world is engaged in regionalism,
which also involves a rich variety of business and civil society
actors, resulting in a multitude of regional processes in most
fields of contemporary politics. In this new text, Fredrik
Soederbaum draws on decades of scholarship to provide a major
reassessment of regionalism and to address questions about its
origins, logic and consequences. By examining regionalism from
historical, spatial, comparative and global perspectives,
Rethinking Regionalism transcends the deep intellectual and
disciplinary rivalries that have limited our knowledge about the
subject. This broad-ranging approach enables new and challenging
answers to emerge as to why and how regionalism evolves and
consolidates, how it can be compared, and what its ongoing
significance is for a host of issues within global politics, from
security and trade to development and the environment. Retaining a
balanced and authoritative style throughout, this text will be
welcomed for its uniquely comprehensive examination of regionalism
in the contemporary global age.
A seemingly never-ending stream of observers claims that the
populist emphasis on nationalism, identity, and popular sovereignty
undermines international collaboration and contributes to the
crisis of the Liberal International Order (LIO). Why, then, do
populist governments continue to engage in regional and
international institutions? This Element unpacks the
counter-intuitive inclination towards institutional cooperation in
populist foreign policy and discusses its implications for the LIO.
Straddling Western and non-Western contexts, it compares the
regional cooperation strategies of populist leaders from three
continents: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, former
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and Philippine President Rodrigo
Duterte. The study identifies an emerging populist 'script' of
regional cooperation based on notions of popular sovereignty. By
embedding regional cooperation in their political strategies,
populist leaders are able to contest the LIO and established
international organisations without having to revert to unilateral
nationalism.
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