The American continent has seen the emergence of regional processes in last 30 years, characterized by new blocs, but also quite different projects. Faced with global and dynamics observed decade 2010, this article argues that regionalism Americas experienced a wave recent which we characterize as Liquid Regionalism, given fluidity, informality limited institutional design Furthermore, introduc...

Public policy decisions are increasingly made by regional governance efforts that involve diverse decision makers from multiple government units within a geographic region. These decision-making bodies face competing pressures to represent regional and local interests. We study how decision makers balance preferences for regionalism and localism within metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs)...

Barely 15 years after the 2008 financial crisis and in a context of rising nationalism, regional organizations are facing multiple challenges. This article introduces an analytical framework that systematizes stressors identifies characteristics might help to cope with stress. It draws on psychological models how individuals stress explore grapple sequence situations. Stress factors can aggrava...

Motivated by the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) in Asia over the last decade, this paper studies the challenges faced by the Asian “noodle bowl”—overlapping, multiple trade rules, regulations, and standards in Asia—in the process of regional and global trade integration. The paper first highlights the importance of trade and investment linkages among Asian economies that have for...

The number of regional trade agreements has nearly doubled in the last four years. Interestingly, relatively small countries have put enormous effort into joining regional agreements with larger countries during this period. In this paper, we address the following question: why are small countries so eager to be a part of these agreements? We construct a general equilibrium model of a natural t...

today, with the increasing trend countries towards globalization, regionalism is also considered and regional organizations have been formed in many parts of the world geopolitical.. one of the manifestations of regionalism are regional organizations that in the second half of the twentieth century as a means to achieve regional integration in geographic areas with different functions in the ec...

Bridging the Pacific provides an image of two separate regions which share Rim, becoming connected in multiple aspects, not limited to a predominantly economic interconnection. This image, thus, points toward constructive mechanism work resolution over-arching global issue, including climate change. and method for its practical implementation are suggested by Forum East Asia Latin America Coope...

this paper deals with the importance of regionalism in iran's foreign policy. some of the existing outlooks view the characteristics of iran's power structure and politics in such a way that make any security-political, economic and cultural coalition and cooperation difficult in the region. but the author holds that political, security and geopolitical changes in the middle east regi...