Crisis and Institutional Change in Regional Integration

ISBN-13: 9781138951839 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 226 str.

Sabine Saurugger; Fabien Terpan

Opis

Comparative regional integration has met with increasing interest over the last twenty years with the emergence or reinforcing of new regional dynamics in the EU, NAFTA, MERCOSUR and ASEAN.

This volume systematically and comparatively analyses the reasons for regional integration and stalemate in European, Latin American and Asian regional integration. It examines whether regional integration systems change in crisis periods, or more precisely in periods of economic crises, and why they change in different directions. Based on a neo-institutionalist research framework and rigorously comparative research design, the individual chapters analyse why financial and economic crises lead to more or less integrated systems and which factors lead to these institutional changes. Specifically it addresses institutional change in regional integration schemes, power relations between member states and the institutions in different policy domains, and change in individual or collective citizens attitudes towards regional integration. Adopting an actor-centred approach, the book highlights which regional integration schemes are influenced by economic and financial crises and how to explain this.

This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and policy specialists in regional integration, European Politics, International Relations, and Latin American and Asian studies."

Spis treści

European Integration 1. Regional Integration in Times of Crises: Comparative regional integration approaches and institutional change 2. European Integration in Response to the ‘Euro Crisis’ 2010-2013 3. The Eurozone crisis and European integration: "new intergovernmentalism" as a valid theory 4. The Transformation of Germany’s Position in the Eurozone Crisis: From Greek Bailouts to Eurobonds 5. Economic crisis, crisis of support? How macro-economic performance shapes citizens’ support for the EU (1973-2014) Latin American Regional Integration 6. Economic crisis and regionalism in Central America: a path dependent logic of failure 7. The contingency of agenda setting in the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) 8. Reinforcing or ignoring the supranational level during crises? Brazilian parties’ views on regionalism Asian Regional Integration 9. Crisis and Regional integration: human rights and environmental governance in ASEAN 10. ASEAN and the Response to Regional Crisis: the Limits of Integration 11. Crises, Citizens and Regional Integration in Southeast Asia 12. Regional integration in times of crises: power, institutional density and the people. A Conclusion