TY - BOOK AU - Laursen,Finn TI - Comparative regional integration: theoretical perspectives SN - 9780754640868 (pbk.) AV - HF1418.5 .C66 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - Aldershot, Hampshire, Eng. PB - Ashgate KW - International economic integration KW - Congresses KW - Regionalism (International organization) KW - Regionalism KW - International relations KW - Security, International N1 - 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 ER -