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We review and analyze some recent research on regionalism. We begin by discussing how various studies have defined regions and regionalism. Because much of the work has been conducted by economists, we then turn to a summary of the economics of regionalism. However, it is widely held that economic factors alone are insufficient to explain regionalism's causes and consequences and that political factors are centrally important We analyze how domestic and international political factors have guided both economic regionalism and security regionalism. We conclude by outlining some avenues for future research, placing particular emphasis on the need to better integrate insights from political economy and international security in the study of regionalism. Adapted from the source document.

We review and analyze some recent research on regionalism. We begin by discussing how various studies have defined regions and regionalism. Because much of the work has been conducted by economists, we then turn to a summary of the economics of regionalism. However, it is widely held that economic factors alone are insufficient to explain regionalism's causes and consequences and that political factors are centrally important. We analyze how domestic and international political factors have guided both economic regionalism and security regionalism. We conclude by outlining some avenues for future research, placing particular emphasis on the need to better integrate insights from political economy and international security in the study of regionalism.

Interpretation des brasilianischen Dezentralisierungsprozesses im Zusammenhang mit Tendenzen zur Umbildung der politischen Allianzen und zur Neubestimmung der regionalen Prioritäten im Zuge weltweiter Veränderungen im kapitalistischen Klassengefüge. Erklärung der spezifischen Ausprägung des Regionalismus und der Autonomiebestrebungen aus den Disparitäten in der Produktionsstruktur und der fortbestehenden Dominanz der exportorientierten Landwirtschaft

For more than a decade regionalism has been on the rise in the global economy. Based on the concept of allocative efficiency, standard trade theory regards regionalism as a form of protectionism. The paper confronts this view with an institutionalist explanation and draws on recent research on the role of specific investments into international market access, uncertainty and asymmetric information in policy coordination. A distinction between regionalism and regionalist policies is proposed. Endogenous regionalism reflects the economic forces of path-dependent comparative advantage and manifests the embeddedness of trade relations in social networks. Regionalism translates into regionalist policies via political entrepreneurship in policy networks that aims at stabilizing expectations about future market access and balancing negotiation power in a multilateral setting. Regionalism is thus presented as the standard case in global economic integration between the two extremes of unilateral liberalization and complete multilateralism.

In her sixty years on earth, Gene Stratton-Porter was many things: a women's club organizer, nature photographer, naturalist, conservationist, best-selling novelist, and a burgeoning film producer who died just as her film studio began to realize her mission of adapting her novels into movies that could further her education and conservation efforts. By 1960, eight of her books had been turned into twenty-one films—silent and sound, black and white and color, from Poverty Row studios to members of the Big Five. This article examines how Stratton-Porter and others translated her regionalism and conservationism to film across a span of forty-three years that saw major revolutions in Hollywood filmmaking. The Hollywood studio system, I argue, appropriated her successful brand of regionalism and her audience of women's club members, while also augmenting her problematically genteel mode of activism.

AFRICAN LEADERS HAVE COMMITTED THEMSELVES TO DEMOCRATIZATION AND SPEEDY RESOLUTION OF CONFLICTS ON THE CONTINENT. IN THIS CONTEXT, OAU WILL NEED TO FIND THE MEANS OF ARBITRATING AND ASSISTING WHEN TRANSITION PROBLEMS ARISE. AFRICA NEEDS A NEW APPROACH TO CONFLICT RESOLUTION, CONSOLIDATING THE CREEPING EROSION OF THE SANCTITY OF SOVEREIGNTY. CONSIDERATION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE CREATION OF AN OAU COUNCIL FOR PEACE AND SECURITY.