INSTRUCTOR: Aguibou Y. Yansan

 

REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMMUNITIES (IR632)

 

Office: HSS 334

Phone: (415) 338 2495

E-mail: aymouke@sfsu.edu

Website: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~aymouke

Website: http://bss.sfsu.edu/africanstudies

 

I          SCOPE, CONTENT AND EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES

 

The course is four (4) unit-upper undergraduate course which examines the political economy of economic integration, in the South (Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean), which is one of the most powerful dynamics of this era in world history.  Increasingly, nations are driven to unite their economies for greater efficiency and growth.  Integrated markets do not necessarily mean integrated states, however.  The fundamental tension between economics and politics is revealed in heightened relief in the process of integration.  The course examines the IPE of economic integration in the South, the African Economic Community (AEC), the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), and the Common Market of South America (MERCOSUR), etc., by looking at its most important examples, the integration of Western Europe, and the USA.  The fundamental question that the AEC, the ASEAN, the MERCOSUR that these regional economic communities (RECs) seek to answer in our days is whether economics is more important than politics.  That is whether the dynamic individualistic motives of the market matter more than the unifying social values of the nation-state.  Significantly, this is still an unanswered question at the start of the twenty-first century.

 

The course is multidisciplinary and draws upon economic, political, historical, cultural, and policy oriented materials The course will review the theory of economic integration, its effects on efficiency and trade, and political regionalism, all in light of the theoretical and practical aspects of development.  The course provides specific information on the existing regional economic communities, and also relating to the much broader theme of development.  It also provides a good deal of history and political economy analysis of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, their developmental problems and opportunities.  This is important for todays students, and the larger theme of development is perhaps more important in the long run.

 

The central theme of the course is the tension between the tendency of economics to unite people and the opposing force of politics (and history and culture) to divide them.  This is a critical theme today because globalized markets are making national borders less relevant, yet the nation-state is still a powerful influence.  The course will ask the students which force will be stronger, for the South and North.

 

The course will try to walk a fine line between technical economics and institutional politics.  Students will supplement and expand their knowledge based on their own strengths and interests.

 

In sum the learning outcomes or objectives of the course are the following:

n  1) it poses a particular question that applies around the globe, and students are challenged to master the specific applications and at the same time appreciate the more general themes that derive from them;

n  2) it examines the specific case of economic and political integration in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean, in contrast with economic and political integration in Europe, which has been one of the most important IPE events of the twentieth century;

n  3) it raises a larger question, which force is stronger—the political forces that divide nations or the global market forces that unite them?  The tension between economics and politics is critical to Europes development, and students will realize the extent to which it conditions international behavior in all parts of the world;

n  4) it familiarizes students with the most important IPE event, regional integration in the South, along with the economic, political, social, cultural, and physical environment of regional economic communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean;

n  5) it enables students to be aware and integrate knowledge and skills around the big issues of economic and political integration and development in the South;

n  6) it applies knowledge and skills to solve problems of development, poverty and inequality;

n  7) it enables students to be aware of how the approach of economics contributes to achieving unity in cultural, ethnic and social diversity, by building a regional economic community in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean;

n  8) it helps to develop students capacity for critical analysis and synthesis;

n  9) it enables students to explore problems and issues from different disciplinary approaches;

n  10) it enables students to understand and appreciate the complexities presented by the problem of regional economic and political development and be aware of the impact that solutions can have on people, their communities, societies and nation-states.

 

II         COURSE REQUIREMENTS     

There will be two (2) periods of lectures and two (2) periods of discussions or audio visuals per week. Discussions and audio visuals are an integral part of the course. The lectures will emphasize important and difficult materials in the reading. But the objectives of the course are to be reached in large measure by extensive readings and by class discussions. Active and meaningful participation, with contributions drawn from current readings and experiences is strongly encouraged.
 

III        GRADING POLICY
First, two brief exams will be given on the required readings and lecture materials. Students are encouraged to write three book reviews to be devoted to a topic linked to one of the themes of the course. The three books, selected from books to be reviewed on the syllabus, must be cleared with the instructor before the beginning of the second week of the semester. The first review is due on February 24, 2011; the second review on March 24, 2011; and the third review on April 21st, 2011.  Students can also write a group research paper (approximately 15-20 pages) on a topic of their choice, the synopsis of which is to be cleared by the instructor before the beginning of the third week of the semester.

The two brief exams will constitute 40 percent of the course grade. They will be in the 7th and 15th/16th weeks of class. The three book reviews will constitute 50 percent of the grade. Class participation will make the remaining 10 percent.

IV        REQUIRED READINGS

1)    i) Bob Deacon et al. World-regional and Social Policy and Global Governance: New Research and Policy Agendas in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, London & New York: Routledge, 2010.  Or

ii) Phillip Oxhorn, Joseph S. Tulchin and Andrew D. Selee, Decentralization, Democratic Governance, and Civil Society in Comparative Perspective: Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press. or

iii) Richard Newfarmer, Trade, Doha, and Development: A Window into the Issues, Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2006.

2)    i) Martin Dedman, The Origins and Development of the European Union 1945-2008: A History of European Integration, 2nd edition, London & New York: Routledge, 2010. Or

ii)Richard M. A. McAllister, European Union: An Historical and Political Survey,   2nd edition, London & New York: Routledge, 2010. Or

        iii) Miroslave N. Jovanovic, The Economics of European Integration: Limits and

             Prospects, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005. Or

        iv) Robert A. Jones, The Politics and Economics of the European Union, Second

              Edition, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2001.

3ai) Organisation of African Unity (OAU), The Treaty of Abuja, Addis Ababa: OAU,   

       1991. Or

3aii) OAU, NEPAD, to be found on Instructors website.  or

3aiii) Africa Capacity Building Fund (ACBF), A Survey of the Capacity Need of

     Africas Regional Economic Communities, Harare, Zimbabwe: 2008. or

3aiv) Eric M. Edi, Globalization and Politics in the Economic Community of West African States, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2007.

3av) Gabriel H. Oosthuizen, The Southern African Development Community: the Organization, its Policies and Prospects, Midrand: Institute of Global Dialogue, 2006.

3avi) COMESA, The Treaty Establishing the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, Lusaka: COMESA, 2004.

3b) Gian Luca Gardini, The Origins of MERCOSUR: Democracy and Regionalization in South America, 1st edition, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Or

3c) Fernando Lorenzo, Marcel Vaillant, (Eds.), MERCOSUR and the Creation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2005, www.wilsoncenter.org or

3d) Helen Sharmini Nesadurai, Globalisation, Domestic Politics, and Regionalism : the ASEAN Free Trade Area, London & New York: Routledge/ Warwick Studies, 2003.

3e) Martin Jones and M.L. R. Smith, ASEAN and East Asian International Relations: Regional Delusion, Chettenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishers Limited, 2006.

4)    i) David Haugen and Rachael Mach, (Eds.), Globalization, Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2010. Or

ii) Paul J. J. Welfens et al., EU-ASEAN : Facing Economic Globalization,

 

iii)Rafael Porrata-Doria, MERCOSUR (The Common Market of the Southern Cone) (Globalization and Society Series), Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2005.

V.             OUTLINE OF GRADUATE PAPERS

 

Selection of a hypothesis in the field of economic, political, and business development (for graduate students). Formulate it in an operational way and state the alternative hypotheses that purport to explain the phenomena. State the implications of the hypotheses. Design and present data whereby the hypothesis could be tested. (You do not have to do the calculations or conduct significance tests; only describe the method you would follow, present your data and state your reasons for expecting that the test would be a good one). Please discuss with the instructor the paper that you propose to write no later than the end of the third week of class. The paper will account for 50% of the final grade, with the two brief exams and class participation making the balance.

 

VI        Possible Movies to Be Seen By Students

 

Students will be required to see and report on the following movies:

    1. Documentary on SADC – Date to be determined.
    2. Documentary on ECOWAS– Date to be determined.  
    3. Documentary on MERCOSUR – Date to be determined.
    4. Documentary on ASEAN – Date to be determined.
    5. Documentary on Global Africa – Date to be determined.
    6. Documentary on the EU – Date to be determined.

 

 

 

 

VII       CLASS OUTLINE

Week1: INTRODUCTION: Discussions of the Syllabus& Instructors Expectations.

Discussions of Methodologies and How to Do Critical Readings & Reviews.

 

Week 2: Review International Political Economy (IPE) Concepts, Theories;

              State–Market Tensions: The Economics and Politics of Integration: Effects of

              Economic Integration, Trade Diversion and Political Regionalism.

              Book: Bob Deacon et al., World-Regional Social Policy & Global Governance       

              Part I: The Case for Regionalism with a Strong Social Dimension.

              Book: Richard Newfarmer, Trade, Doha..,

 

Week 3: Continued Discussions of Bob Deacon et al., World Regional Social Policy

Part II: The Social Policy Dimensions of Regional Integration.

              Part III: Regional Social Integration & Global Social Governance.

 

Week 4: Decentralization, Democratic Governance and Civil Society:

              Book: Phillip Oxhorn et al. (Eds.), Decentralization, Democratic Governance &

              Civil Society in Comparative Perspective: Africa, Asia & Latin America..

 

 

Week 5: Europe and the Mirror of Political Regionalism: Coal & Steel & the

                Community, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP); From the EEC to the EC.

                The Development of Political Institutions & the Challenges.

               Books: i) Martin Dedman, The Origins and Development of the European

               Union 1945-2010or  

               ii)Richard M. A. McAllister, European Union: An Historical and Political

                Survey

              iii) Robert A. Jones, The Politics and Economics of the European Union,Or

              iv) Miroslav N. Jovanovic, The Economics of European Integration,

 

Week 6: Efforts of Economic Integration in Africa: the African Economic Community

               (AEC) made up of the six pillars of Regional Economic Communities (RECs):

                Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA);

                Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS/CEEAC);

                Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS);

    Southern African Development Community (SADC);

    Arab Maghreb Union (AMU/UMA).

    Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).

    See: i) Organization of African Unity (OAU), The Treaty of Abuja..

            ii) OAU, NEPAD

            iii) ACBF, A Survey of the Capacity Needs of Africas RECs

            iv) Books on ECOWAS, SADC, COMESA, and others.

 

 

Week 7:  Continued Discussions of Attempts of the AEC Continued.

 

Week 8:  Attempts of the Latin American Economic Integration include the following:

   First, Mercado Comn del Sur ( MERCOSUR), with five permanent members:

   Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and from July 2006, Venezuela.  It

   represents 75 percent of South America GDP.

   Second, the Andean Community includes Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia

    (Venezuela left in 2006)

               Third, the South American Community of Nations, a Brazilian plan to fuse

    MERCOSUR & the Andean Community.

    See the following literature:

i) Gian Luca Gardini, The Origins of MERCOSUR: Democracy and Regionalization in South America, Or

    ii) Fernando Lorenzo, Marcel Vaillant, (Eds.), MERCOSUR and the Creation of

        the  Free Trade Area of the Americas, www.wilsoncenter.org

    iii) Aadya Mattoo (World Bank), In the New Round of GATTs Negotiations:

    Toward a Pro-Active Role,  or

     Luis Alberto Oliveres, The Concept of Borders in the Context of Andean

      Integration & Future Development.., or

      Miles K. Light, Free Trade of the Americas Agreements (FTAA), Economic

        Impacts for the Andean community..

See: http://www.ustr.gov/regions/whemisphere/atpa.shtml

        http:comunidadandina.org/ingles/documents.htm

Week 9: Continued Discussions of Attempts of the Latin American Integration Efforts:

               See: http://www.communidadandina.org/endex.html

                       http://news.bbc.co.uk/1h.business/4079505.stm

                       http://www.sice.oas.org/ftaa e asp

Week 10: Attempts of the South East Asian Countries at Integration:

                The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is an organization which

was established by the Bangkok Declaration (1967) linking the nations of

 Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, subsequently,

 Brunei (1984), Vietnam (1995), Laos (1997), Myanmar (1999), and Cambodia

  (1999). 

See: Helen Sharmini Nesadurai, Globalisation, Domestic Politics, and   Regionalism : the ASEAN Free Trade Area,

Week 11: Discussions of the South East Asian Countries Integration Efforts Continued.

Week 12: Regional Economic Communities (RECs) as second best to Globalization.

                See any of the following:

          i) David Haugen and Rachael Mach, (Eds.), Globalization, or

   ii) Paul J. J. Welfens et al., EU-ASEAN : Facing Economic Globalization.., or

  iii)Rafael Porrata-Doria, MERCOSUR (The Common Market of the Southern..or

iv) Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontent, or

v) Jagdish Bhagwati, In Defense of Globalization, or

vi) IFR, Alternatives to Globalization: A Better World Is Possible.

Week 13: Discussions of RECs as second best to Globalization Continued.

Week 14: Discussions and Students Presentations of Collective Papers

Week 15: Discussions and Students Presentations Continued.

Week 16: Discussions and Students Presentations & Final Week.

 

VIII     LISTS OF BOOKS TO BE REVIEWED

FIRST LIST OF BOOKS TO BE REVIEWED

1)    Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin, (Eds.), Experimentalist Governance in the European Union: Towards a New Architecture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

2)    Yenkong Ngangjoh-Hodu and Francis A.S. T. Matambalya, (eds.), Trade Relations between the EU and Africa: Developmenmt Challenges and Options beyond the Cotonou Agreement, London & New York: Routledge, 2010.

3)    Klaus R. Kunzman, Willy A. Schmid and Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr, (Eds.), China and Europe: The Implications of the rise of China for European Space, London & New &York: Routledge, 2010.

4)    Edward J. Balleisen, David A. Moss, (Eds.), Governments and Markets: Toward a new Theory of Regulation, Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010 (equivalent to two books).

5)    Fredrik Soderbaum, Patrik Stalgren, (Eds.), The European Union and the Global South, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010.

6)    Richard C. Feiock, John T. Scholtz, (Eds.), Self-organizing Federalism: Collaborative Mechanisms to Mitigate Institutional Collective Dilemmas, Cambridge, UK & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

7)    Shigeyuki Hamori, Naoko Hamori, Introduction of the Euro and the Monetary Policy of the European Central Bank, Singapore and Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publication Company, 2010.

8)    Greg N. Gregoriou, (Ed.), Emerging Markets, Performance, Analysis, and Innovation, Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2010 (three books).

9)    Tanja Boskovic, Caroline Cerriti, Michael Noel, Comparing European and US Securities Regulations: MiFID versus Corresponding USD Regulations, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2010.

10) Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski and Andrzej Marcin Suszycki, (Eds.), Multiplicity of Nationalism in Contemporary Europe, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010.

11) Matthias Schultz, Thomas A. Schwartz, The Strained Alliance: US European Relations from Nixon to Carter, Washington DC: German Historical Institute; Cambridge, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

12) Stephen R. Gliessman, Martha Rosemeyer, (Eds.), The Conversion to Sustainable Agriculture: Principles, Processes, and Practices, Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2010.

13) Clemens N. Nathan, (Ed.), Current Issues in Human Rights and International Relations: Papers from the Clemens Nathan Research Centre, Leiden, Boston: M. Nijhoff Publishers, 2010.

14) Peter J. Heather, Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. (two books).

15) Borko Handjiski et al. Enhancing Regional Integration in Southeast Europe, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2010.

16) Andreas Dur, Protection for Exporters: Power and Discrimination in Transatlantic Trade Relations, 1930-2010, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010.

17) J. P. Singh, (Ed.), International Cultural Policies and Power, Basingstoke, UK; and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

18) Ariane Chebel dAppolonia, Simon Reich, (Eds.), Managing Ethnic Diversity after 9/11: Integration, Security , and Civil Liberties in Transatlantic Perspective, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010.

19) Mary Martin and Mary Kaldor, (Eds.), The European Union and Human Security: External Interventions and Missions, London & New York: Routledge, 2010.

20) Nils Ringe, Who Decides, and How? Preferences, Uncertainty, and Policy Choice in the European Parliament, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.  See http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199572557.001.0001

21) Daniel Benjamin (ED.), Europe 2030, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2010.

22) Leila Simona Talani, From Egypt to Europe: Globalization and Migation Across the Mediterranean, London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2010.

23) Stefan Engert, EU Enlargement and Socialization: Turkey and Cyprus, London, & New York: Routledge, 2010.

24) Raphael Kies, Promises and Limits of Web-deliberation, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

25) Bernd Marin, Eszter Zolyoni (Eds.), Womens Work and Pensions: What Is Good , What Is Best? Designing Gender-Sensitive Arrangements, Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010.

26) Ainius Lasas, European Union and NATO Expansion, New York: Palgrave, 2010.

27) Jonathan Q. Tritter et al.Globalization, Markets and Helthcare Policy: Redrawing the Patient as Consumer, London & New York: Routledge, 2010.

28) Emmanuel Adler et al. (Eds.), The Covergence of Civilizations: Constructing a Mediterranean Region, Toronto & Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2006. (two books).

29) Michael Pugh, Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu, The United Nations and Regional Security: Europe and Beyond, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003.

30) Michael V. Bhatia, War and Intervention: Issues for Contemporary Peace Operations, Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, Inc., 2003.

31) Nikki Slocum-Bradley, Promoting Conflict or Peace though Identity, Aldershot, UK & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008.

32) Norman Caulfield, NAFTA and Labor in North America, Urbana: University of Illinois, 2010.

33) Jorge Alberto Huerta-Goldman, Mexico in the WTO and NAFTA: Litigating International Trade Disputes, Fredericki, MD: Aspen Publishers, 2010.

34) Bill Ong Hing, Ethical Borders: NAFTA, Globalization, and Mexican Migration, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2010.

35) Jenny Rebecca Kehl, Foreign Investment and Domestic Development, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009.

36) Mark S. Manger, Investing in Protection: the politics of Preferential Trade Agreements between North and South, Cambridge, UK & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

37) Mitchell Young (Ed.), Free Trade, Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2009.

38) Saul Bernard Cohen, Geopolitics: the Geography of International Relations, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.

39) Andrew T. Price-Smith, Contagion and Chaos: Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.

40) Joseph Contreras, In the Shadow of the Giant: the Americanization of Modern Mexico, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2009.

41) Bruce Campbell, ! Viva la Historieta! : Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009.

42) Cesare P. R. Romano, (Ed.), The Sword and the Scales: the United States and International Courts and Tribunals, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

43) Jeffreys Ayres and Laura Macdonald, (Eds.), Contentious Politics in North America: National Protest and Transnational Collaboration under Continental Integration, Basingstoke, UK & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

44) Teresa Healy, Gendered Struggles against Globalization in Mexico, Aldershot, UK & Burlington, VT: Asgate, 2008.

45) Edith Brown Weiss, John H. Jackson, Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, (Eds.), Reconciling Environment and Trade, Leiden, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers/Koninklijke Brill, 2008.  (two books).

46) E. Wesley F. Peterson, A Billion Dollars a Day: the Economics and Politics of Agricultural Subsidies, Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

47) E. H. Kessler and D, J. Wong-MingJi, (Eds.), Cultural Mythology and Global Leadership, Cheltenham, MA: Edgar Elgar, 2009.

48) Mireya Solis, Barbara Stallings and Saori N. Katada, (Eds.), Competitive Regionalism: FTA Diffusion in the Pacific Rim, Basingstoke, UK & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

49) Pow Choon-Piew, Gated Communities in China: Class, Privilege, and the Moral Politics of the Good Life, London & New York: Routledge, 2009.

50) Lerwen Liu, (Ed.), Emerging Nanotechnology Power: Nanotechnology R & D and Business Trends in the Asia Pacific Rim, Singapore, & Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Pub. Com., 2009.

51) Mary Ann Gillies, Helen Sword, & Steven Yao, (Eds.), Pacific Rim Modernisms, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.

52) Debbie Richards, Byeong-Ho Kang, (Eds.), Knowledge Acquisition, Approaches, Algorithms and Applications: Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition, Berlin & New York: Springer, 2009.

53) Frank L. Acuff, How to Negotiate Anything with Anyone around the World, 3rd edition, New York: AMAQCON/American Management Association, 2008.

54) Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose, (Eds.), International Financial Issues in the Pacific Rim: Global Imbalances, Financial Liberalization, and Exchange Rate Policy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

55) David Ward, (Ed.), Television and Public Policy: Change and Continuity in an Era of Global Liberalization, New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2008.

56) Debasis Bagchi, (Ed.), Nutraceutical and Functional Food Regulations in the United States and around the World, Amsterdam & Boston: Elsevier/Academic Press, 2008.

57) Wallace V. Schmidt, et al. Communicating Globally: Intercultural Communication and International Business, Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2007.

58) Cornelia Storz and Andreas Moerke, (Eds.), Competitiveness of New Industries: Institutioanal Framework and Learning in Information Technology in Japan, the US and Germany, London & New York: Routledge, 2007.

59) Sandhya Shuka and Heidi Tinsman, (Eds.), Imagining Our Americas: toward a Transnational Frame, Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.

60) Randall Jordan Doyle, America and China: Asia-Pacific Rim Hegemony in the Twenty-first Century, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007.

61) Steven McShane & Tony Travaglione, Organizational Behavior in the Pacific Rim, North Ryde, NSW: McGraw-Hill Australia, 2007.

62) Douglas Monroy, The Bordsers within: Encounters between Mexico and the US, Tucson: University of Arizona, 2008.

63) Juan M. Rivera, Scott Whiteford, and Manuel Chavez, (Eds.), NAFTA and the Campesinos: the Impact of NAFTA on Small-scale Agricultural Producers in Mexico and the Prospects for Change, Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 2009. 

64) Ross Buckley, Vai lo Lo, Laurence Boulle, (Eds.), Challenge to Multilateral Trade: the Impact of Bilateral Preferential and Regional Agreements, Frederick, MD: Aspen Publishers, 2008.

65) Dennis Kegan and David West, Reality Check: the Unreported Good News about America, Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2008.

66) Martin Muehleisen, Shaun K. Roache, and Jeromin Zettelmeyer, (Eds.), Whos Driving Whom?: Analyzing External and Intra-regional Linkages in the Americas, Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 2008.

67) Paul Ganster and David E. Lorey, The US Mexican Border into the Twenty-first Century, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.

68) Louise Gerdes, (Ed.), Transportation, Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2008.

69) Stephen Clarkson, Does North America Exist? Governing the Continent after NAFTA and 9/11, Toronto: University of Toronto Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2008.

70)  Silvia Nunz-Garcia, Manuel Chavez, (Eds.), Critical Issues in the New US-Mexico Relations: Stumbling Blocks and Constructive Paths, 1st edition, East Lansing, Mi: Michigan State University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2008.

71) Patricia M. Goff, Limits to Liberalization: Local Culture in a Global Market Place, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007.

72) Isabel Studer, Carol Wise, (Eds.), Requiem or Revival?: the Promise of North American Integration, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2007.

73) Daniel J. Gervais, (Ed.), Intellectual Property, Trade & Development: Strategies to Optimize Economic Development in a TRIP plus Era, New York: Oxfo9rd University Press, 2007.  (two books).

74) Gordon Mace, (Ed.), Regionalism and the State: NAFTA and Foreign Policy Convergence, Alodershyot, UK & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007.

75) Edward Ashbee, Helene Balslev Clausen, and Carl Pedersen, (Eds.), The Politics, Economics, and Culture of Mexican-US Migration: both Sides of the Border, 1st edition, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

76) Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and John Shefner, (Eds.), NAFTA and Beyond: Alternative Perspectives in the Study of Global Trade and Development, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2007.

SECOND LIST OF BOOKS TO BE REVIEWED

1)    C. E. Emezi, & C. A. Ndoh, African Politics, Owerri, Nigeria: Achugo Publications, 1998. (two books).

2)    Kayode Fayemi, in collaboration with Olusegun Mayegun, et al. (Eds.), Deepening the Culture of Constitutionalism: Regional Institutions and Constitutional Development in Africa, Ikeja, Nigeria: Centre for Democracy and development, 2003.

3)    UN Agencies, Political Handbook of the Middle East 2008, Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2008. (two books).

4)    Parag Khanna, The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order, New York: Random House, 2008. (two books).

5)    Charles D. Jebuni, International Payments Systems within ECOWAS Countries, Accra-North, Ghana: Centre for Policy Analysis, CEPA Workshop, no. 3, 1998.  Chibuike U. Uche, The Politics of Monetary Sector Cooperation among the Economic Community of West African States Members, Washington, DC: World Bank Institute, Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Program, 2001; Policy Research Working Paper, no. 2647.  Paul Masson and Catherine Pattillo, Monetary Union in West Africa (ECOWAS): Is It Desirable and How It Could Be Achieved? Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 2001.

6)    Bakut Tswah Bakut and Sagarika Dutt, (Eds.), Africa at the Millennium: An Agenda for Mature Development, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.

7)    R. A. Akindele, (Ed.), Civil Society, Good Governance, and the Challenge of Regional Security in West Africa, Agege, Lagos, Nigeria: Vantage, 2003.

8)    Thomas Jaye, Issues of Sovereignty, Strategy, and Security in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Intervention in the Liberian Civil War, Lewiston, N. Y: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.

9)    Gabriel H. Oosthuizen, The Southern African Development Community: the Organization, Its Policies and Prospects, Midrand: Institute for Global Dialogue, 2006. (two books).

10) SADC Secretariat, Gender Resource Unit, Gender Resource Kit Supplementary Reading Material, Gabarone, Botswana: Gender Unit, SADC Secretariat, 2003.

11) UNESCO Sub-regional Office for Southern Africa, Teaching and Learning: A Case of SADC Countries, Harare: UNESCO, 2006.

12) Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Regional Integration in Southern Africa, Vol.1,Gabarone, Botswana: July 2006.

13) The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Treaty Establishing the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, Lusaka, Zambia: COMESA, 2004.

14)  Geoff . R. M. de Beer, R. A. Mmatli, and D. J. Arkwright, Spatial Development Initiatives: Some Lessons of Experience for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Lusaka: COMESA Regional I(ntegration Network, 2003.

15) Francis Mangeni, WTO Negotiations on Rules on Regional Trade Agreements: African Perspectives, Lusaka: COMESA Regional Integration Research Network Project, 2002.

16) Stephen N. Karingi, Mahinda Siriwardana, Eric E. Ronge, Implications of the COMESA Free Trade Area and Proposed Customs Union: Empirical Evidence from Five Member Countries Using GTAP Model and Database, Lusaka: COMESA, 2002.

17) John Akokpari and Daniel Shea Zimbler, Africas Human Rights Architecture, Auckland Park, South Africa: Fanele, 2008.

18) Marie Trmolires, Regional Challenges of West African Migration: African and European Perspectives, Paris: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), SWAC, 2009.

19) Eric M. Edi, Globalization and Politics in the Economic Community of West African States, Durham, N.C: Carolina Academic Press, 2007.

20) Export Import Bank of India, ECOWAS, A Study of Indias Trade and Investment Potential, (Occasional Paper (Export Import Bank of India), Mumbai: Quest Publications, 2008.

21) Jeggan C. Senghor and Nana K. Poku, (Eds.), Towards Africas Renewal, Aldershot, UK & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007.

22) David M. Law, (Ed.), Intergovernmental Organizations and Security Sector Reform Sector, Zurich: Lit & Piscataway, NJ: Transactions Publishers, 2007.

23) J. O. Adesina, Yao Graham and A. Olukoshi, (Eds.), Africa and Development Challenges in the New Millennium: The NEPAD Debate, Dakar, Sngal, CODESRIA, and Pretoria, South Africa: Zed Books/UNISA Press/ Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

24) ECOWAS Secretariat, First Annual Murtala Muhammed Memorial Conference: Breaking Barriers and Limitations: the Role of Women in Development, Nigeria, [Nigeria: sn] 2005.

25) Michael Bothe, Mary Ellen OConnell, Natalino Ronzitti, (Eds.), Redefining Sovereignty: the Use of Force after the Cold War, Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publishers, 2005. (two books).

26) Mourtada Dme, Law, Morality, and International Intervention: the United Nations and ECOWAS in Liberia, New York: Routledge, 2005.

27) Andrea Kathryn Talentino, Military Intervention after the Cold War: the Evolution of Theory and Practice, Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2005.

28) David J. Francis et al., Dangers of Co-deployment: UN Cooperative Peacekeeping in Africa, Aldershot, UK & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005.

29) Adekeye Adebayo, Ismail Rashid, West Africa Security Challenges: Building Peace in a Troubled Region, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004. (two books).

30) Nsolo J. N. Mijere, Informal Cross-border Trade in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Addis Ababa: Organisation for Social Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, 2009. Southern African Forum on Trade, (5th, in 2008, in Pretoria), Liberalising Trade in Southern Africa: Implementation Challenges for the 2008 SADC FTA and Beyond: Proceedings of Fifth Southern African Forum on Trade (SAFT), Midrand, South Africa & Luanda, Angola: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Angola Office, 2008. Medicine Masiiva, Trade Barriers in Agricultural Products in SADC, Harare: Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions, 2007.

31) Abdel-Fatau Musah, The ECOWAS Moratorium in Light Weapons: Pitching Political Will against Reality, Accra, Ghana: Fondation for Security and Development in Africa (FOSDA), 2004 (FOSDA Monograph no. 9.  Eurpean Commission, Small Arms and Light Weapons: the Response of the European Union, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2001.  Sunday A. Ochoche, ECOWAS in Conflict Prevention and Managtement in West Africa, Ilorin, Nigeria: Department of Political Science, University of Ilorin, 2002.

32) Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), Integration and Trade: A New Chapter, Washington, DC: IADB, 2010. 

33) Carmen Pages-Serra, The Age of Productivity: Transforming Economies from the Bottom Up, Washington, DC: IADB, 2010.  ISBN: 978-0-230-62352-1

34) IADB, Development Effectiveness Overview 2008-2009, Washington, DC: IADB, 2010.  ISBN: 9781597821131   

35)  IADB, Bridging Regional Trade Agreements in the Americas, Washington, DC: IADB, 2010.

36) Eduardo Rojas, (Ed.), Building Cities: Neighbourhood Upgrading and Urban Quality of Life, Washington, DC: IADB, 2010. ISBN: 9781597821087.

37) SPD-SDV, Assessing the Effectiveness of Agricultural Interventions: Development Effectiveness Overview Special Topic, Washington, DC: IADB, 2010. ISBN: 978-1-59782-114-8.

38) Multilateral Investment Fund, Beyond Small Change: Making Migrant Remittances Count, Washington, DC: IADBH, 2010.

39) Andrew D. Selee and Enrique Peruzzoti, Participatory Innovation and Representative Democracy in Latin America, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

40) Jose Raul Perales, (Ed.), The Political Economy of Uruguayan International Insertion, Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2010. 

41)  Cynthia J. Arnson, Claudio Fuentes, and Francisco Rojas Aravena with Jessica Varat, (Eds.), Energy and Development in South America: Conflict and Cooperation, Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2010.

42) Joseph S. Tulchin and Ralph H. Espach,. With Heather A. Golding, (Eds.), Paths to Regional Integration: The Case of MERCOSUR-# 5, Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2010.

43) Luis Roniger, Mario Sznajder, The Legacy of Human Rights Violations in the Southern Cone: Argentine, Chile, and Uruguay, Oxford: Oxford Universaity Press, 1999.

44) Nicola Phillips, The Southern Code Model: The Ploitical Economy of Regional Capitalist Development in Latin America, New York: Routledge, 2004.

45) Anil Hira, Politicval Economy of Energy in the Southern Cone, Westport CT: Praeger, 2003.

46) Martin Carnoy, Industrialization in a Latin American Common Market, Washington, DC: Brookings Institute, 1992.

47) Amy K. Kaminsky, After Exile: Writing the Latin American Diaspora, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

48) Galai Ridha, Intgration Economique des Etats Arabes: Mode dEmploi, Tunis : Arabesques Editions, 2008.

49) Mhammed Malki, Le Maghreb et l Union Europenne l Aube du 21 eme Sicle : Actes du Colloque International Organis par le Centre dEtudes Constitutionnelles et Politiques(CECOP) de la Facult en Collaboration avec le British Council, Marrakech, les 26-27 Novembre 1999, Marrakech, Universit Cadi Ayyad, Facult des Sciences Juridiques, conomiques et sociales, Centre dՎtudes constitutionnelles, 2001.

50) Julio Pinto, Entre la integracion y la fragmentacion regional : el desafio politico de nuestro tiempo, Buenos Aires : EUDEBA( Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires), 2009.

51) Nora Aquin, Ruben Caro, (Eds.), Politicas Publicas, Derechos, y Trabajo Social en el MERCOSUR, Buenos Aires : Espacio, 2009.

52) Fernando Hugo Azcurra, La Teoria del Crecimiento Economico  y el MERCOSUR : una Extension del Programa de Investigacion Sraffiano para la Argentina, Buenos Aires : Ediciones Cooperativas (EC), 2009.

53) Jussara Maria Rosa Mendes et al. (Eds.), MERCOSUL em Multiplas Perspectivas, Direitos e Proteo, Porte Alegre: EDIPUCRS, 2008.

54) The World Bank, Doing Business 2009: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2008.

55) The World Bank, Doing Business 2009: Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2008.

 

 

 

THIRD LIST OF BOOKS TO BE REVIEWED

1)    Christopher Roberts, ASEAN Myanmar Crisis: Challenges to the Pursuit of a Security Community, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010.

2)    David Shambaugh and Michael Yahuda, (Eds.), International Relations of Asia, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008.

3)    Mark Beeson, Institutionsa of the Asia-Pacific: ASEAN, APEC, and Beyond, London & New York: Routledge, 2009.

4)    Anwar Ibrahim, Yang Razali Kassim et al. (Eds.), Strategic currents : Emerging Trends in Southeast Asia, Singapore : S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, 2009.

5)    Michael S. H. Heng, Lin Tai Wei, Destructive Creativity of Wall Street and the East Asian Response, Singapore & Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Pub. Co, 2009.

6)    Joseph Franois, Pradumna B. Rana and Ganeshan Vignaraja, (Eds.), Houndmills, Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. (two books).  

7)    Alice D. Ba, (Re)negotiating East and Southeast Asia: Region, regionalism and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009.

8)    Helen E.S. Nesadurai and J. Soedradjad Djiwandono, (Eds.), Southeast Asia in the Global Economy: Securing Competitiveness and Social Protection, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2009.

9)    Michael J. Plummer, ASEAN Economic Integration: Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Finance, Singapore, Hackensack, N.J, & London: World Scientific Pub. Co. 2009.

10) Pavin Chachavalpongpun (Ed.) The Road to Ratification and Implementation of the ASEAN Charter, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009; and ASEAN, Roadmap for an ASEAN Community, 2009-2015, Jakarta: Association of Southeast Asian Nations, 2009.

11) T. Nirmala Devi, Aduri Subramanyan Raju (Eds.), Envisioning a New South Asia, Delhi, India, Shipra Publications, 2009.

12) Lindy Poh, Celebrating the Source: Water Festivities of Southeast Asia, Jakarta: ASEAN Committee on Culture and Information, 2009.

13) Tommy Koh, Rosario  G. Manalo, Walter Woon, The Making of the ASEAN Charter, Singapore, & Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Pub. Co., 2009.

14) Rodolfo C. Severino, The ASEAN Regional Forum, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009.

15) William T. Tow and Chin Kin Wah, (Eds.), ASEAN, India, Australia: Towards Closer Engagement in a New Asia, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009.

16) ASEAN Studies Centre, MERCOSUR Economic Integration: Lessons for ASEAN, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, no. 5, 2009. Ozoemenan Mbachu, Africa and the ASEAN: the Challenges and Prospects of Cooperation and Linkages, Kaduna, Nigeria: Medusa Academic Publishers, 2009.

17) Hiro Katsumata, ASEAN s Cooperative Security Enterprise: Norms and Interests in the ASEAN Regional Forum, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.  

18) Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh, et al., (Eds.), China-ASEAN Relations: Economic Engagement and Policy Reform, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: University of Malaya, Institute of China Studies, 2009.

19) ASEAN-Taiwan Economic Relations, Economic Integration and the Investment Climates in ASEAN Countries: Perspectives from Taiwan Investors, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009; ASEAN, Energy and Geopolitics in the South China Sea: Implications for ASEAN and Its Dialogue Partners, Report/ASEAN Studies Centre; no.8. Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009.

20) Ikuo Kuriwa, Plugging into Production Networks: Industrialization Strategy in less Developed Southeast Asian Countries, Singapore: Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization: Institute of Souteast Asian Studies, 2009.

21) Evelyn Goh and Sheldon W. Simon, (Eds.), China, the United States, and Southeast Asia: Contending Perspectives on Politics, Security, and Economics, London & New York: Routledge, 2008.

22) Donald K. Emmerson, (Ed.), Hard Choices: Security, Democracy, and Regionalism in Southeast Asia, Stanford, CA: Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2008.

23) Alexander C. Chandra, Indonesia and the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement: Nationalists and Regional Integration Strategy, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield Pub. 2008.

24) Wang Gungwu and Zheng Yongnian, China and the New International Order, London & New York: Routledge, 2008.

25) Amitav Acharya, Asia Rising: Who Is Leading? Singapore & Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Pub. Co. 2008.

26) Sree Kumar, Shyaron Siddique, Southeast Asia: the Diversity Dilemma, Singapore: Select Pub., 2008.

27) Muthiah Alagappa, (Ed.), The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. (two books).

28)  Philomena Murray, Europe and Asia: Regions in Flux, Basingstoke, UK & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

29) Bob Lingard, Jon Nixon and Stewart Ranson, Transforming Learning in Schools and Communities: the remaking of education for a Cosmopolitan Society, New York: Continuum, 2008.

30) Francis Field, (ED.), China, India, and the United States: Competition for Energy Resources, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 2008. (two books).

31) Tham Siew Yean, Lee Poh Ping, Noran Othman, (Eds.), Community in ASEAN: Ideas, & Practices, Bangi, Malaysia: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia, 2008.

32) Hyung Jong Kim, Regional Integration in Southeast Asia, Kuala Lumpur, University of Malaysia Press, 2008.  Rudolfo C. Severino, ASEAN, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008.

33) Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh, (Ed.), Facets of a Transforming China: Resource, Trade, and Equity, Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya, Institute of China Studies, 2008.

34) Motoyoshi Suzuki (Ed.), Perspective of Laos Economic Development: Impact of AFTA Scheme, Vientiane: Japan International Cooperation Agency, Las Office: National Economic Research Institute, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Laos, 2008.

35) Amitav Acharya, Constructinmg a Security Community in Southeast Asia: AQSEAN and the Problem of Regional Order,

 

36) Shaun Narine, Explaining ASEAN: Regionalism in Southeast Asia, Denver, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2002

 

37) Ralf Emmers, Cooperative Security and the Balance of Power, London & New York: Routledge, 2003.

 

38) Denis Hew, Roadmap to an ASEAN Economic Community 2009-2015, Jakarta: ASEAN, 2008.

 

39) M. Dutta, Economic Regionalization in the Asia-Pacific: Challenges to Economic Cooperation, The ASEAN, Chettenham, UK & Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 1999.

 

40) Shoji Nishijima, Peter H. Smith, Cooperation or Rivalry? Regional Integration in the Americas and the Pacific Rim, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996.

 

41) Denis Fred Simon, The Emerging Technological Trajectory of the Pacific Rim, Amonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1995.

 

42) David A. Lake, Patrick M. Morgan, Regional Orders: Building Security in a New World, University Park: Pennsylvania University Press, 1997.

 

43) Saw Swee-Hock, Sheng Lijun, Chin Kin Wah, ASEAN_China Relations: Realities and Prospects, Canberra, Australia: Contemporary China Center, Research of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2006. (Or see The China Journal , No. 56, 2006).

 

44) Jurgen Haacke, ASEAN Diplomacy and Security Culture: Origins, Development and Prospects, London: Routledge, 2009.

 

45) Kotler, Think ASEAN! Rethinking Marketing Toward ASEAN Community, Singapore: McGraw Hill, 2007.

 

46) Michael G. Plummer, and Chia Siow Yue, Realizing the ASEAN Economic Community: A Comprehensive Assessment, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009.

 

47) Paul J. J. Welfens , C. Suthiphand Chirathivat, and Franz Knipping, EU-ASEAN: Facing Economic Globalization, Berlin & London: Springer, 2008.

 

48) Paruedee Nguitragool, Environmental Cooperation in Southeast Asia: ASEAN Regimes Boundary Haze Pollution, New York: Routledge, 2010.

 

49) Ives Bourdet, The Economics of Transition in Laos: From Socialism to ASEAN Integration, Chettenham, UK & Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publisgers, 2000.



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