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In this article, we argue that conventional understandings of regional integration based on neo-functionalism, hitherto often used to describe the diverse projects of Latin American regionalism, are of limited utility in that context. Rather than representing processes of economic or political unification, the various regionalisms could be understood more productively as a reaction to the crisis in legitimacy that social orders in the region have experienced under the conditions of globalized modernity. We then deploy an understanding of regionalism derived from sociological differentiation theory in order to advance this argument.

Abstract In this article, we argue that conventional understandings of regional integration based on neo-functionalism, hitherto often used to describe the diverse projects of Latin American regionalism, are of limited utility in that context. Rather than representing processes of economic or political unification, the various regionalisms could be understood more productively as a reaction to the crisis in legitimacy that social orders in the region have experienced under the conditions of globalized modernity. We then deploy an understanding of regionalism derived from sociological differentiation theory in order to advance this argument.

Terroristische Gruppen präsentieren sich zwar immer als Feinde eines bestimmten Staates, einer Gruppe von Staaten oder gar der Idee des Staates als solcher. Ihre Aktivitäten haben aber mehr als nur zerstörerische Konsequenzen. Terroristische Gewalt kann zu Veränderungen staatlicher Strukturen im Zuge der Terrorismusbekämpfung führen, kann Staatstätigkeit in manchen Fällen sogar neu legitimieren. Umgekehrt findet auch die Bildung terroristischer Gruppierungen in einem bereits bestehenden staatlichen Kontext statt, der sie ermöglicht und den sie bis zu einem gewissen Grad reflektieren. Und schli