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1. Assessing regional governance : an indicative framework for developing indicators / Edward Best -- 2. Assessing attitudes towards regional integration processes / Bernd Schlipphak and Timo Menniken -- 3. How to measure the level of regional conflict and peace? / Michael Schulz -- 4. Indicators of intra-regional migration and mobility / Michela Ceccorulli. [et al.] -- 5. Statistical measures of regional trade integration / P. Lelio Iapadre and Michael Plummer -- 6. Indicators of regional financial integration / Agustin S. Benetrix and Sebastien Walti -- 7. Measurement of regional economic convergence / Jose Villaverde and Adolfo Maza -- 8. Optimum currency area criteria / Lucio Vinhas de Souza and Corina Weidinger Sosdean -- 9. Gravity models applied to regional integration / Aurora Mordonu. [et al.] -- 10. CGE models applied to regional integration / Renato G. Flores Jr. -- 11. Sustainability impact assessments applied to regional integration / Clive George, Tomasz Iwanow and Colin Kirkpatrick -- 12. Evaluation techniques applied to large-scale regional projects / Paul J. Stephenson and Manohar Lal Baharani -- 13. Participatory foresight techniques applied to regional integration processes / Nikki Slocum-Bradley and Luk van Langenhove -- 14. Composite indexes and systems of indicators of regional integration / Philippe de Lombaerde. [et al.].

In 2001, the United Nations University launched UNU-CRIS, a research and training programme on comparative regional integration to study the role of regional integration in global governance. This is a timely product of the research undertaken at UNU-CRIS. The report represents a unique collaboration between all regional UN Economic Commissions. It focuses on one of the central issues in the debate on global governance.

Aid for Trade (AfT) has become a major item on the international trade and development discourse. This is to a large extent in response to concerns expressed by developing countries and economies in transition with regard to their capacities to implement trade agreements, especially WTO agreements, and undertake necessary adjustments to increase net development gains from emerging trade opportunities. In this World Report, major UN agencies active in development cooperation and longstanding providers of trade-related technical assistance and capacity building discuss ways to sustain the momentum towards the operationalization and implementation of the AfT initiative and the supportive role to be played by the UN system. This is consistent with UN's role in promoting development and helping to achieve poverty reduction, as committed in the Millennium Declaration and the 2005 World Summit Outcome. The Report should be of particular interest to government officials, officials of regional organizations, representatives of the private sector dealing with trade agreements and negotiations, civil society and academia. Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD Lakshmi Puri is Acting Deputy Secretary-General and Director of the Division on International Trade and Services, and Commodities at UNCTAD in Geneva. Philippe De Lombaerde is Associate Director of United Nations University (UNU-CRIS) in Bruges. In collaboration with: UNCTAD, ECA, ECLAC, ESCAP, ESCWA, UNECE, UNIDO, UNDP, UNEP

1. The sweep of asymmetric trade negotiations : introduction and overview / Diana Tussie and Marcelo Saguier -- 2. The scope for asymmetry in the World Trad Organisation (WTO) / Stephen Woolcock -- 3. Asymmetric trade negotiations for development : what does the experiences from the ACP-EU economic partnership agreements tell us? / Sanoussi Bilal -- 4. Comparative asymmetric trade negotiations in the southern cone : FTAA and EU-MERCOSUR / Mercedes Botto and Andrea C. Bianculli -- 5. Venezuela in asymmetric trade negotiations : the case of negotiations in the FTAA and with the EU / Rita Giacalone -- 6. Negotiating the Colombia-US FTA : a Colombian perspective / Luis Jorge Garay, Philippe De Lombaerde and Fernando Barberi -- 7. Negotiating the Thailand-US free trade agreement / Wisarn Pupphavesa, Ludo Cuyvers, Santi Chaisrisawatsuk and Philippe De Lombaerde -- 8. Postscript : asymmetric trade negotiations after the turn-of-the-decade 'Global' financial crisis? / Timothy M. Shaw.

1. Introduction / Philippe De Lombaerde and Michael Schulz -- 2. Supporting regional integration and cooperation worldwide : an overview of the European Union approach / Giulia Pietrangeli -- 3. Exporting the European model of regional integration : the case of agriculture / Sebastian Zaleski and Felix Mittermayer -- 4. EU trade strategy and regionalism : assessing the impact on Europe's developing country partners / Clive George, Tomasz Iwanow and Colin Kirkpatrick -- 5. Toes in the water : the 'makability' of ASEAN and European commission support to economic integration in Southeast Asia under the ASEAN-EU Programme for Regional Integration Support (APRIS) / David Martin -- 6. The European Union and the 'making' of South American regionalism / Jose Briceno Ruiz and Andres Rivarola Puntigliano -- 7. NAFTA parity in real time and the 'making' of the EU-Mexico partnership / Rosalba Icaza Garza -- 8. Normative Europe : changing values and attitudes in Central America / Jose Caballero -- 9. An assessment of European Union cooperation towards the Andean Community (1992-2007) / Marleny Bustamante and Rita Giacalone -- 10. The role of epistemic communities in the 'makability' of MERCOSUR / Mercedes Isabel Botto -- 11. An evaluation of the EU-Mediterranean region-building from the perspective of the regionalization process in the Mediterranean / Ana Bojinovic Fenko -- 12. The EU's ambitious regionalization of the South Caucasus / Syuzanna Vasilyan -- 13. The EU and (sub-) regional organizations in North-Eastern Europe : impact on (sub-) regional cooperation and integration / Tobias Etzold -- 14. The making of the East African Community : a case study / Karel van Hoestenberghe, Hein Roelfsema and Swabiri Khalidi -- 15. The EU and regional integration in Central Africa : promoting inter-regionalism as an incentive to the regionalist scheme? / Firmin Mbala -- 16. Commonwealth(s) of regions extra-EU? Anglophone globalization and new regionalisms / Timothy M. Shaw -- 17. EU support to regional integration worldwide and the 'makability' of regions : conclusions / Philippe De Lombaerde and Michael Schulz.

The relationship between global governance and regionalisation is fraught with ambiguity. Understanding regionalisation in this context requires an understanding of its relationship, and reactive condition, with both the constellations of global governance and globalisation. This book presents an overview and explores the distinctive but intersecting trajectories of regionalisation and global governance. It surveys: the theoretical debates; the economic dimensions: multinationals, trade and investment, and labour; the security considerations: armed conflict, conflict prevention and peacekeepin