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Este artículo analiza la formación de ENLACES (Espacio de Encuentro Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Educación Superior), previsto en la Declaración de la Conferencia Regional sobre Educación Superior en América Latina y el Caribe - CRES 2008. El artículo también trata sobre regionalismo, regionalización y regionalidad. Para esto, metodológicamente, se utilizan teorías críticas de enfoque, como la Teoría de los Campos Sociales de Pierre Bourdieu, el Nuevo Regionalismo de Björn Hettne, Frederik Söderbaum y Tanja A. Börzel, y la Economía Política Cultural (CPE), especialmente de Roger Dale y Susan Robertson. ; This paper analyzes the formation of ENLACES, foreseen in the Declaration of the Regional Conference on Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean - CRES 2008. The article also deals with regionalism, regionalization and regionness. For this, methodologically, critical theories of approach are used, such as Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Social Fields, the New Regionalism of Björn Hettne, Frederik Söderbaum and Tanja A. Börzel, and Cultural Political Economy (CPE), especially from Roger Dale and Susan Robertson. ; Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación

The article looks at regionalism as one of several political responses to globalization with a particular focus on the security dimension. It is shown that regionalisation in Asia takes different forms. Southeast Asia represents an advanced region in terms of regionness (regional society/community), whereas East Asia and South Asia are rather anarchical regional complexes, albeit for different reasons and with different implications. However, South Asia also exemplifies an "inherent regionness" due to a historical legacy of shared experiences. The nature of the security problems is substantively different, and diverse challenges call for different solutions. In the more anarchical East Asia with comparatively consolidated nation-states a regional concert arrangement seems more appropriate. (DSE/DÜI)

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AbstractThis paper questions the utility of traditional depictions of Southeast Asia as a region in terms of cultural criteria. These depictions, are essentialized characterizations and to the extent that they are directed at identifying Southeast Asia as a region, they reflect comparatist errors. It is argued that the central issue is not how Southeast Asia can or cannot be depicted as a region but, rather, conceptualizing regions and regionness as human constructs. Such an approach requires a focus on interactions instead of identity. From this perspective, regions may be seen as interpenetrated systems, both in a global sense and in sub-regional terms. Interpenetration is seen in terms of interactions of varying intensity and density centering on structures of interest which may be competitive or complementary and where the role of brokers and broker institutions are pivotal. Accordingly, from a long-term human historical perspective, endogenous experiences of region and regionness may well be regarded as variable phenomena depending on the structures of interest and the part played by brokers and broker institutions in any given historical period.

AbstractRegionalism has long conceptual and empirical histories across social sciences, and areas of the international and transnational practice of economics, imperialism, and environmental governance. However, energy regionalism remains in the early stages of development both conceptually and empirically. This article reviews three areas of diverse and interdisciplinary scholarship, including international relations, geography, and regional environmental governance, and draws lessons for research agendas associated with energy regionalism. It draws insights from recent work on comparative regionalisms, together with critical perspectives from geography scholarship, conceptualizing regionness as potentially subnational and transnational, as well as inter‐state. Recent geographical literature examines regions and regionalisms as both sets of relational networks and territorial entities, with infrastructure playing a central role around questions of energy. The use of regionalism in international relations literatures, around regionally‐framed environmental cooperation regimes, offers another set of conceptual and empirical lessons for an energy regionalism research agenda. Arguing that these areas have much to contribute to the study of a conceptual and theoretically diverse understanding of energy regionalisms research, the piece concludes by identifying five nodes for theorizing empirical research on energy regionalism: constructing regionness; inequality, money and power; epistemic and normative dimensions; diffusion and institutional hybridization; and scaling regionalism.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 EU-Latin American Interregionalism -- 1.1 Regionalism and integration -- 1.2 The European Union and Latin America -- 1.3 Regionness and hybrid interregionalism -- 2 EU Policies towards Latin America -- 2.1 The EU system of external relations -- 2.2 EU institutions and Latin America -- 2.3 EU policies and Latin America -- 3 The Summits -- 3.1 Background of the interregional relationship -- 3.2 The summits: Rediscovering the other transatlantic relationship -- 4 Association Agreements

This research is aimed to study the labor migration effects over the social and territorial regionness, after the political crisis and the war conflicts, a period between the years 1990 to 2005. Regionalism is understood as a process of the social-economic, political, and organizational cohesion of region building. The regionness provides an understanding about the states or phases of the regionalization within the trans-border region comprised by the geographic isthmus of Central America. This study unfolds in four dimensions: firstly, the relation between intra-regional migrations and the regional integration are studied. Secondly, it explores the formation of a regional labor supply-system produced by the articulation between intra-regional labor migration and other types of mobility -internal and extra-regional. A third dimension addresses to the territorial interdependency woven by the effects of migration. Finally, the last dimension looks at the territorial and social cohesiveness that rises as a new arena for a regional citizenship. As a result of the migratory interactions, three spatial realities are studied: (a) the rise of migrant workforce enclaves. (b) trans-border spaces and (c) the urban space, all three parts of a territorial division and fragmentation in both economic and labor enclaves. The variety of types of migration have been linked together through a flexible labor-supply system created for diversified labor markets -sectorally and territorially-, segmented by the economic competition, the regularization mechanisms and the cultural stigmas over immigrant labor jobs. These linkages are notorious according to a number of territorial interactions at different scales which produce spatial fragmentation, competition between localities and deterioration of the territorial cohesion. Despite of the centrality of migration, its existence poses a breaking point in the legal order and in other forms of social life regulation. It reveals new contradictions and conflicts in the sphere of citizenship as well. In addition to the limitations on the virtues of justice, equality and liberty, this rupture is expressed by the implementation of immigration policies, based on national security criteria, and setting distances from the international norms of protection for migrant people. This is the juridical expression of the fracture of the regionness: between democracy, (understood as a government mechanism) and the implemented system of rights.

AbstractThis essay adopts an international relations perspective in understanding Southeast Asia as a region and stresses regionalism as the chief agent in regional construction. It argues that the modern, post-Second World War concept of Southeast Asia resulted from a deliberate effort by a group of governments in the region to develop a regional identity based on political and strategic considerations. Regionalism and regional identity were seen by these governments as an important way of furthering nationalism and national interests. This, in effect represented a shift from the colonial, orientalist and geopolitical views of Southeast Asia's regionness to a more indigenous and essential political idea of Southeast Asia emerging out of the evolution of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). "Nations come and go - why shouldn't regions?" Don Emmerson (Emmerson, 1984:20)

Over the last two decades, natural resource governance has become an increasingly important element of South American regionalism as commodities became a central driver for regional development strategies. Yet, due to socio-environmental impacts and dissatisfaction with decision-making processes, it is also frequently contested. This article focuses on one particularly prominent contestation with transboundary and regional repercussions, the case of the pulp mill conflict which escalated between Argentina and Uruguay in the 2000s. Using the concepts of regionness and politics of scale, it examines in which ways the pulp mill conflict affected regional cohesion and seeks to understand why it evolved in this way. This shows that the way national governments address socio-environmental conflicts is an important additional obstacle to regional cohesion which has received little attention in studies of South American regionalism so far.