Comparative regional integration : theoretical perspectives / edited by Finn Laursen.

Conference papers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theoretical perspectives on comparative regional integration -- Rebuilding the central america Bloc in the 1990s: an intergovernmentalist approach to integration -- Presidentialism and mercosur: a hidden cause for a successful experience -- A supply-side theory of international economic institutions for the mercosur -- Power and regionalism:explaining regional cooperation in the persian gulf -- Two funerals and a wedding? the ups and downs of regionalism in East Asia and Asia Pacific after the Asian crisis --Rethinking the mediterranean: reality and re-presentation in the creation of a region -- Two sides of the same coin:mutual perceptions and security community in the case of Argentina and Brazil -- Integration in times o instability: exchange rate and monetary cooperation in Mercosur and the EU -- The ECOWAS: from regional economic organization to regional peacekeeper -- Path dependence and external shocks:the dynamics of the EU enlargement eastwards -- The vertical and horizontal dimensions of regional integration: a concluding note -- Internatioanl regimes or would-be polities? some concluding questions and remarks.