The Political Economy of Regions and Regionalisms

MORTEN B S is Senior Researcher, Fafo - Institute for Applied International Studies, Oslo, Norway. He has published extensively on African politics, the multilateral system, and regions and regionalization. His most recent books in English include New and Critical Security and Regionalism (co-edited with James J. Hentz), and Global Development and Institutions: Framing the World? (co-edited with Desmond McNeill). MARIANNE H. MARCHAND is Professor of International Relations at the University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico. Her research demonstrates a concern with the pol

This volume takes the debates on the political economy of regionalization beyond their current stage, utilizing the insight that regionalization entails profound socio-cultural, economic and political restructuring.This volume takes the debates on the political economy of regionalization beyond their current stage, utilizing the insight that regionalization entails profound socio-cultural, economic and political restructuring. The contributions challenge the traditional formal interstate and institutional bias in analyses of regionalization, in which the EU is often presented as the model for understanding contemporary practices. Instead, they underscore the need to understand regionalization in terms of its myriad local articulations. There is not just one process of regionalization, but many.