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The Working Papers Series on Comparative Regional Integration Studies is devoted to the study of regional integration from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It covers theory, empirical work and policy analysis, and includes contributions on the political, economic, social and cultural aspects of co-operation at the level of both macro-regions and micro-regions. While committed to the highest academic standards, the series aims to be accessible to policy-makers and practitioners and seeks to encourage informed debate on comparative regional integration.
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This study is foreseen in Project I.2 of the Work Programme of the Permanent Secretariat for the year 2008, approved during the XXXIII Regular Meeting of the Latin American Council of SELA.
First of all, this analytical... By: SELA
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The report ‘A Fair Globalisation: Creating Opportunities for All’ of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalisation claims that regional integration can contribute to a more equitable pattern of globalisation, but... By: UNU-CRIS
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The African continent has witnessed since the nineties a rebirth of regional arrangements
aiming at furthering the integration of Africa. However the process of regional integration has
faced a great variety of obstacles.... By: Emmanuel Fanta
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The connection between labour standards and international trade has become a key issue in therelations between industrialised economies and developing countries. Both the US and the EU areadvocates of the inclusion of “labour... By: Bart Kerremans and Myriam Martins Gistelinck
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The current background paper has been prepared for the High-level Panel “Building productivecapacities for trade competitiveness: Economic Partnership Agreements(EPAs)”, taking place during the 12th Session of the UNIDO... By: Adrian Schöning
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Since the proliferation of regional trade agreements in the late 1980s and early 1990s(the so-called new regionalism wave), preferential rules of origin (RoO) have also proliferated. The discussion on these rules gradually... By: Philippe De Lombaerde and Luis Jorge Garay
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This paper analyses the crisis of decision making in the WTO from the perspective ofcollective action and public goods theory. At the heart of the current policy paralysis isthe inability of WTO members to collectively provide... By: Brigid Gavin
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The WTO’s system of consensus-based decision making has come under increasing stress in recentyears, especially in the wake of high-profile breakdowns in negotiations at the Seattle and Cancunministerial meetings, culminating in... By: Kent Jones
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A crucial factor explains the poor economic performance of Sub-Saharan Africa, i.e. therisky market and trade structure that is entailed by commodity dependence, because ofthe volatility of commodity prices, therefore the... By: Alice Sindzingre
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) has undertaken systemic reforms since its establishmentfollowing the conclusion of the Uruguay Round in 1994. Indeed, the very dynamics of the WTOnegotiating processes have underdone... By: Charles Tsai
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Le présent document analyse les liens entre la culture et la coopération et l’intégration régionalesainsi que leurs répercussions sur la sécurité humaine et le développement. La culture peut être undomaine de coopération... By: Nikki Slocum-Bradley
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This chapter looks at the extent to which monitoring processes and activities provide theintegration in the European Union (EU) with sufficient levels of transparency andaccountability to make it the relatively well-governed,... By: Ana-Cristina Costea, Philippe De Lombaerde, Wouter De Vriendt, Birger Fühne
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In the short run, China’s rise as a major global trade player is already creatingwinners and losers in Latin America and the Caribbean. On the winning side are theeconomies of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR), Argentina,... By: Uziel Nogueira
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Regionalist processes are occurring all over the world, not least the formation of micro-regionswhich, although obviously not a new occurrence, are more and more cross-border in nature ratherthan being contained within the... By: Fredrik Söderbaum and Ian Taylor
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview of what’s been happening since the release of the World Commission’s report that could indicate a trend towards the development of a global framework for the cross-border... By: Frédérique Channac
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The difficult relationship between the two global public goods of cultural plurality andinternational economic integration is often analysed at world level, stressing thejurisdictional overlap between the WTO system and other... By: Silvia Formentini and Lelio Iapadre
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The African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states and the European Union (EU) countries haveagreed to negotiate new WTO-compatible Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) that shouldnot be an end in itself, but be first and foremost... By: Sanoussi Bilal and Francesco Rampa
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Studies of Latin American regional integration follow two strands of thought. The first,which I refer to as the ‘classic,’ interprets regionalism as a logical process: a continuumin which economic cooperation would lead to... By: José Caballero
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In this essay I discuss how the international community could conceptualise, understand andreact to global and regional threats. The recent United Nations’ (UN) High-level Panel onThreats, Challenges and Change, and other world... By: Tapio Kanninen
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Much of the debate on regional integration in the European Union (EU) has for a longtime focused on the ‘deepening’ and ‘widening’ of the integration project, and thebalance between these two movements. The process as such was... By: Philippe De Lombaerde et al.
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Over the past five years, there has been a big debate on how to further Asianintegration. Visions and plans have emerged from the East Asian Vision Group (2001),the findings of the East Asian Study Group published in 2002, and... By: Brigid Gavin
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The past two decades have seen the emergence of two paradoxical developments ininternational trade policy making. The multilateral trade system (MTS) has grown andexpanded to include 149 member countries. Most of the new members... By: Brigid Gavin
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In this paper we explore the nature and effects of the Economic Partnership Agreements(EPAs) between the EU and groups of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.We argue that the direct economic effects from reciprocal... By: Karel Van Hoestenberghe and Hein Roelfsema
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The author critically evaluates the proposal for a new analytical model aimed atevaluating ex ante the conditions to form free trade areas among groups of countries(the Trade Liberalization Evaluation –TLE- Methodology, see Ruiz... By: Philippe De Lombaerde
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The assessment of human security (HS) challenges and prospects in Central America (CA) presents acomplex and contradictory picture. The region has been quite tumultuous during the past three decades,and the legacy of war, social... By: Philippe De Lombaerde and Matthew Norton
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Deze tekst presenteert een samenvatting van een onderzoek uitgevoerd door de Universiteitvan de Verenigde Naties (UNU-CRIS; Brugge) en het Instituut voor Internationaal Recht vande KUL. Het onderzoek liep van 1 januari 2005 tot... By: Jan Wouters et al.
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The paper examines the relationships between culture and regional cooperation/integration and theirimplications for human security and development. While culture can be the content of regionalcooperation, regional cooperation and... By: Nikki Slocum-Bradley
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This paper extends the methodological toolbox of measures of the regional concentrationof industries and the industrial specialization of regions. It, first, defines the class of disproportionalitymeasures of concentration and... By: Frank Bickenbach and Eckhardt Bode
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This paper aims to present an overview of the EU-UN relations and map the actualand possible EU-UN relationships and their implications for global governance. First,a general overview is presented of how the EU and the UN... By: Luk Van Langenhove, Isabella Torta and Tania Felicio
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On 28 and 29 April 2006, the United Nations University Programme on comparative RegionalIntegration Studies (UNU-CRIS) and the United Nations Department for Political Affairs (UNDPA)convened a seminar to consider the evolving... By: Tania Felicio
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South-South trade agreements are proliferating: Developing countries signed 70 newagreements between 1990 and 2003. Yet the impact of these agreements is largely unknown.In this paper, we focus on the static effects of... By: Ana Maria Mayda and Chad Steinberg
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Historical evidence suggests that development and trade are co-varying variables. Whichone leads the other is the big question that has been debated at length in political economy.Trade isolated as an end in itself had never been... By: Emel Memis and Manuel F. Montes
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This paper examines how the EU as an international actor contributed to the creation andsustenance of order in world politics since the end of the Cold War. To this end, it advancesan operationalization of order that takes the... By: Erwin van Veen
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This paper is an attempt to assess the possible trade diversion from the Russian Federation causedby the 2004 EU enlargement to 10 Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs). Left out ofthe club, Russia has been confronted... By: Aurora Mordonu
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Economically, the last fifty years, the world has witnessed an unparalleled growth andtransformation. Economic development has been spurred by the opening up and ensuingexpansion of world trade and the dramatic reduction in... By: Luc Soete
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The social dimension of European Union has sometimes mockingly been called the'Cinderella' of integration as a way of signaling its lowly status and the lack of regardin which it is held in the European family. Strangely, the... By: Monica Threlfall
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The aim of this symposium was to analyse the social dimensions of regionalintegration policies. It was suggested that policy orientated social science could helpidentify the potential advantages for countries of taking further... By: Bob Deacon, Nicola Yeates and Luk Van Langenhove
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This paper explores the nature of and relationship between ‘identities’ and‘legitimacy’. First, an analytical distinction is made between expressions of identityand expressions of attitudes about Europe and the European Union. A... By: Nikki Slocum-Bradley
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Caricom as a small regional trading agreement is characterised by economies withdiffering degrees of development. This paper reviews the differing economic attributesof these various Caricom states and then discusses in detail... By: Roger Hosein and Clive Thomas
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In this article, the authors analyse the characteristics of the new regionalism in LatinAmerica since the late eighties. It is shown that, on the one hand, it is related to theconsiderable multiplication of the number of regional... By: Philippe De Lombaerde and Luis Jorge Garay
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With the support of the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Luxembourg, theLuxembourg Institute for European and International Studies (LIEIS) and theClingendael Institute of International Relations convened a seminar on... By: Adrian Pabst
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Mainly since the mid-1990s, the international community set its eyes on theColombian conflict. The growing interest relates to a series of factors, includingchanges in the international political agenda, a renewed interest of the... By: Philippe De Lombaerde, Geert Haghebaert, Socorro Ramirez and An Vranckx
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Following the EU-Latin America and Caribbean Summit of Heads of States and Government, held in Guadalajara in May 2004, it was agreed that the start of negotiations on an Association Agreement between the EU and CAN would be... By: Ernoko Adiwasito, Philippe De Lombaerde and Giulia Pietrangeli
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First let us define social policy. Social policy may be defined in a number ofways that complement each other. Broadly speaking, it refers to “collectiveinterventions directly affecting transformation in social welfare,... By: Nicola Yeates and Bob Deacon
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Globalization is one of the major phenomena challenging the existing worldorder based upon sovereign states. Societies are more and more confrontedwith global issues linked to international trade and development, environmentand... By: Luk Van Langenhove, Isabella Torta and Ana-Cristina Costea
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