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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes how modernization and economic integration were viewed in Europe, as the means of rebuilding European leadership after World War I, and in Latin America, as the key to growth and self-determination.
Trade ReviewThe book, Regional Integration and Modernity: Cross-Atlantic Perspectives, provides a new and deeply knowledgeable analysis of the integration processes in Europe and Latin America in the context of modernity. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, including new regionalism theory, that supports the contention that regional integration is a socially constructed phenomenon. The book is, therefore, a valuable contribution to comparative regional integration studies. -- Jody Jensen, director of International Relations at the Institute of Social and European Studies
In this intellectually exciting series of essays the research team assembled by Natalie Doyle and Lorenza Sebesta reveal the diverse strands of European and inter-American ideas that advanced regional integration as a key component of modernization. We meet some familiar (and less familiar) thinkers in a new optic as we are provided a trans-Atlantic genealogy of reformist and federalist initiatives through the course of the twentieth century. -- Charles Maier, Harvard University
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Interwar plans for European economic integration: an overview Pierre Tilly and Michel Dumoulin Chapter 2: International municipalism between the wars: local government as modernizing actors Mariana Luna Pont Chapter 3: Talcott Parsons, Carl J. Friedrich and the conceptualization of regional integration Flora Anderson Chapter 4: Theories of modernization in Latin America José Paradiso Chapter 5: Alexandre Kojève and the re-invention of modernity: the European Communities as the “End of History” Lorenza Sebesta Chapter 6: Judicial globalization: the dialogue between the Inter-American and European Courts of Human Rights Beatriz Larrain Chapter 7: Agencies to modernize integration? The European Union and Mercosur as case studies Sandra Negro Chapter 8: Government-industry relations in Argentina: trade decisions in Mercosur Luciana Gil Chapter 9: Multinational companies and the peripheral automotive space in Mercosur Martin Obaya Chapter 10: The de-politicizing logic of European economic integration Natalie Doyle
