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"With featuring far-reaching diversities and disparities among the regional states in their political, economic and social systems and cultural and religious orientations, East Asia is a microcosm of international society at large. Nevertheless, there are unique dynamics unfolding in East Asia at the turn of the twenty-first century, namely the rise of China as a contender for regional and global hegemony and a set of collective initiatives to integrate the region into a harmonious community. This book provides new arguments on China's rise and the transformation of East Asia and analyzes the foreign policy behavior of the regional states and relations among them. In doing so, the contributors show why and how China is rising, and in turn, the regional structures or institutions that are emerging as dominant in East Asia. Furthermore, given the East Asian context where the world's second and third largest economies coexist with much smaller states and with China's ascendency likely to continue, this book challenges the pervasive dichotomy of hegemony and community. This allows for a fuller and more nuanced account of China's role and the shifting regional policies in East Asia in which hegemonic cooperation does not necessarily lead to a hegemonic form of regional order. Presenting strategic, political, economic and historical perspectives on China's changing role in the region and the development of regionalism, China's Rise and Regional Integration in East Asia will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese politics, Asian politics, international relations and regionalism"--

"This comparative book analyses the development of regional integration parliaments in three different continents of the world. It assesses and compares the expansion and current stage of institutional development of three regional assemblies - the European Parliament, the Pan-African Parliament, and the Mercosur Parliament for Latin America. Looking in particular at parliamentary agency, it aims to answer why, and to what extent, these regional parliaments have developed differently in terms of their functions and legislative competences. Drawing on new and original empirical data, official documents, and secondary literature, the book focuses on the 'critical junctures' in the trajectory of the three assemblies and argues that parliamentary agency has impacted the institutional development of the parliaments leading to diverse paths of regional parliamentarisation. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of global and regional governance, comparative regionalism, European Union studies, legislative studies and more broadly to international relations, history, law, political economy, and international organisations"--

Arbeiterwanderung in den ölfördernden Ländern als Folge eines sozialen Prozesses beginnend mit einer homo economicus-Phase, übergehend in neue soziale Ziele und endend mit Diaspora-Gemeinschaften in den Zielländern. Beteiligung aller sozialen Schichten an den Wanderungsbewegungen. Langfristige Förderung des Wirtschaftswachstums durch die Gastarbeiter. Verstärkte Integration Ägyptens in die arabische Welt. (DÜI-Seu)

The launch of the ASEAN Economic Community raises key issues: the deepening of regional trade and the associated problem of exchange rate management. This volume questions the capacity of a shallow institution to deal with complex impacts on employment and inequality. Readers gain a clear understanding of ASEAN's potential and weakness in technical and non-technical but always readable terms.