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В работе раскрывается необходимость реформирования ООН в свете современных реалий. Рассматривается эффективность применения принципа регионализма при принятии решений в рамках ООН. Анализируется позиция Европейского союза относительно эффективности деятельности ООН и возможности включения в ее деятельность региональных организаций. ; The article reveals the need of UN reform in the light of contemporary realities. The effectiveness and necessity of regionalism in the UN system of decision-making process are also considered in this article. The author analyses the position of the EU concerning the effectiveness of the UN activity and the ability to include the main bodies of its regional organizations to the UN work.

Trade and investment flows between Taiwan and the mainland China's coastal provinces have increased several fold since the early 1980s. Many provinces of south-east China have become more integrated with Taiwan and Hongkong than with any other part of mainland China. It thus seems that growing regionalism in mainland China will lead to coordination with Taiwan through trade and investment despite political constraints. The author explores the feasibility of this integration and estimates its probable impact on the predominantly Chinese communities of East Asia. (DÜI-Sen)

How did urban Italy come to look the way it does today? This collection assembles recent studies in architectural history and theory exploring the historical paradigms guiding architecture and landscape design in between the world wars. The authors explore physical changes in townscapes and landscapes, covering a wide range of architectural designs from strict modernist solutions to variations of regionalism, mediterraneanism and national style from all over Italy. Specifically, the volume explains how conservation, restoration and town planning for historic areas led to the production of heritage, elucidating the role architects like Marcello Piacentini, Innocenzo Sabbatini, Mario de Renzi and Giulio Ulisse Arata played in this.

In this essay I argue that in the Gilded Age (the last quarter of the nineteenth century), delegates to constitutional conventions in the western territories designed state governments to manage, as best they could, the development of their economies. They were, and understood themselves to be, citizens of the periphery of the United States. Delegates to the conventions hoped to shield their states from the worst possible outcomes of that peripheral relationship, and foster the best ones. My arguments contribute to our understanding of state constitutions and, more broadly, to central concerns of American political development—regionalism, labor law, and state building.

This book outlines challenges to the effective operation of Regional Economic Communities (RECs) with regards to peacebuilding in Africa. Critically examining these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, with a focus on comparative analysis of the status, role, and performances of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), it examines particular constraints to their effective participation in regional initiatives. Focussing on inadequate technical capabilities, the complicity of state and non-state actors in conflicts within a region, the domestic politics of member states, it additionally pans out to address related theories and practices of peacekeeping, security, development, and the peacebuilding nexus. It also engages provisioning, regionalism and regional peacekeeping interventions, the legal and institutional framework of RECs, and civil society and peacebuilding. Fundamentally, the book asks how effective the alliances and partnerships are in promoting regional peace and security and how much they are compromised by the intervention of external powers and actors, exploring new ideas and actions that may strengthen capacities to address the peacebuilding challenges on the continent effectively. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of African politics and studies, peace and security studies, regionalism studies, policy practitioners in the field of African peacebuilding, and more broadly to international relations.

Cover -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: The global-regional relationship -- 1 Cooperating and competing: relations between multilateral organizations in international security -- 2 The United Nations and regional security organizations in Africa, Europe and the North-Atlantic region -- 3 Inter-organizational relations in a nested environment: regional organizations in the UN -- 4 Cooperation and competition: United Nations-African Union relations -- Part II: Intra-regionalism -- 5 Inter(b)locking institutions: NATO, the EU, the OSCE and inter-organizational European security governance -- 6 Multilateralisms at war? Competing visions of regional architecture in East Asia -- 7 Competing claims for security governance in South America -- 8 In-between Europe and Asia: regional multilateral organizations and Eurasian region-making -- Part III: Inter-regionalism -- 9 Networked inter-regional organizational security: new hubsor old hierarchies? -- 10 An emerging inter-regional peace and security partnership:The African Union and the European Union -- 11 Inter-regional multilateralism in the Global South: the zone of peace and cooperation in the South Atlantic -- Part IV: Governing security issues -- 12 Fluid spatialities and the governance of child trafficking in West Africa -- 13 An EU-ASEAN perspective on inter-organizational relations in the context of cross-border crises in Southeast Asia -- 14 Sanctions cooperation and regional organizations -- 15 Conclusion -- Index

"Interest and research on regionalism has soared in the last decade. Local governments in metropolitan areas and civic organizations are increasingly engaged in cooperative and collaborative public policy efforts to solve problems that stretch across urban centers and their surrounding suburbs. Yet there remains scant attention in textbooks to the issues that arise in trying to address metropolitan governance. Governing Metropolitan Areas describes and analyzes structure to understand the how and why of regionalism in our global age. The book covers governmental institutions and their evolution to governance, but with a continual focus on institutions. David Hamilton provides the necessary comprehensive, in-depth description and analysis of how metropolitan areas and governments within metropolitan areas developed, efforts to restructure and combine local governments, and governance within the polycentric urban region. This second edition is a major revision to update the scholarship and current thinking on regional governance. While the text still provides background on the historical development and growth of urban areas and governments' efforts to accommodate the growth of metropolitan areas, this edition also focuses on current efforts to provide governance through cooperative and collaborative solutions. There is also now extended treatment of how regional governance outside the United States has evolved and how other countries are approaching regional governance"--

Introduction : 2005 : China and Japan's year of living dangerously / Michael Heazle and Nick Knight -- Part I : living in the past? : the politics of nationalism in China -- The influence of Chinese nationalism on Sino-Japanese relations / Jian Zhang -- East Asian multilateral cooperation and the prospects for China-Japan relations / Xia Liping -- Thinking about globalisation, thinking about Japan : dichotomies in China's construction of the modern world / Nick Knight -- Part II : the past is what you make it : the spectre of nationalism in contemporary Japan -- 'Will you go to war? or will you stop being Japanese?' : nationalism and history in Kobayashi Yoshinori's Sensoron / Rumi Sakamoto -- Competing historical perceptions in Japan's post-war narratives / Barbara Hartley -- Japan under siege : Japanese media perceptions of China and the two Koreas six decades after World War II / Eric Johnston -- Part III : northeast Asian threat perceptions : the politics of future intentions -- Two tigers on the same mountain : China's security policy towards Japan / Jian Yang -- China's Asian policy : multipolarity, regionalism and peaceful rise / Joseph Y.S. Cheng -- Nationalism, security, and prosperity : the three dimensions of Sino-Japan relations / Michael Heazle -- Part IV : regional perceptions of China and Japan -- Jealous suitors : Sino-Japanese competitive regionalism and the future of East Asia / Michael Wesley -- South Korea between China and Japan: lifting the Cold War lens / David Hundt

The book examines ASEAN's mechanisms in managing challenges and threats to regional security. Its extensive analyses of the ASEAN story of managing regional security cover the different phases of ASEAN's development as a regional organization and explore the perceptible changes that have occurred in regional mechanisms of conflict management. The book also examines the roles of relevant actors beyond the states of ASEAN and the key interactions that have evolved over time, which have been instrumental in moving regional mechanisms beyond the ASEAN way. The book argues that the ASEAN way has not been impervious to change. As the association finds its way through periods of crises and continues to confront the many challenges ahead, ASEAN and its mechanisms are already being transformed beyond the narrow confines of the modalities associated with the ASEAN way. The changes in the political and security landscape of the region, as well as the democratic transitions taking place in some member states, have set the stage for a much more dynamic set of regional actors and processes that bring into question the kind of regionalism that is now taking place in the region. This book therefore attempts to capture these evolving dynamics and examines the way regionalism is changing in Southeast Asia

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Region -- Southeast Asia: A Year When High Ambition Was Challenged / Crone, Donald -- ASEAN Economic Co-operation: Adjusting to the Crisis / Setboonsarng, Suthad -- Regionalism In East And Southeast Asia: Two Views -- ASEAN: An Image Problem / Sheridan, Greg -- East Asian Regionalism: So Close and Yet So Far / Chongkittavorn, Kavi -- Brunei Darussalam -- Brunei Darussalam: Developing Within Its Own Paradigm / Duraman, Ismail / Hj Hashim, Abdul Amin -- Cambodia -- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Cambodia and the Elusive Quest for Peace / Um, Khatharya -- Hun Sen's Pre-Emptive Coup: Causes and Consequences / Peou, Sorpong -- Indonesia -- Indonesia: A Year of Politics and Sadness / Sukma, Rizal -- Indonesia: Towards Transition / Lowry, Bob -- Laos -- Laos: No Safe Haven from the Regional Tumult / Freeman, Nick J. -- Malaysia -- Malaysia: A Year of Introspection / Kurus, Bilson -- Myanmar -- Myanmar: Regional Relationships and Internal Concerns / Steinberg, David I. -- The Philippines -- Between Populism and Reform: Facing the Test of May 1998 / Magna, Alexander R. -- Security Challenges of the Philippine Archipelago / Pablo-Baviera, Aileen San -- Singapore -- Entrenching a City-State's Dominant Party System / Ganesan, N. -- Towards a Singaporean Civil Society / Tay, Simon S. C. -- Thailand -- Thailand: Constitutional Reform Amidst Economic Crisis / Jumbala, Prudhisan -- Thai Foreign Policy: Seeking Influence / Funston, John -- Vietnam -- Vietnam's One-Party Rule and Socialist Democracy? / Vasavakul, Thaveeporn -- Striving Towards Doi Moi 11 / Truong, David H.D.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the narratives of journalism of the founder of Siberian regionalism N.M. Yadrintsev, presented in the journal "Delo" in the 1870s. Guided by the methodology of "new cultural and intellectual history", the authors showed that the cooperation of N.M. Yadrintsev with the democratic journal "Delo" resulted in the development and systematization of several narratives: abolition of exile as punishment, prison studies and educational policy of tsarism.
The authors established that the problems of exile and prison were not at all the only topics that the Siberian public figure developed in the pages of "Delo" journal. The authors revealed that in the second half of the 1870s N.M. Yadrintsev also developed the issue of educational policy as part of his collaboration with the central periodical. The provincial thinker, within the framework of these publications, convincingly showed that the desire for education in Siberia was constantly growing, and as the number of secondary educational institutions increased, so did the number of Siberians striving for a university education. In the concept of regionalists, the university in general was perceived as a rallying body for the forces of the region, the development of civil liberty in it and the formation of the local intelligentsia. Keywords: Siberian regionalism, history of journalism, exile, prison, educational policy of tsarism, N.M. Yadrint-sev, academic-literary journal "Delo".

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This article examines the work of Mexican diplomat and jurist Jorge Castañeda as an insight into the trajectory of international legal thought in the semi-periphery on international organizations. It argues that Castañeda adopted a distinct approach to international organizations law that foregrounds power asymmetries. The article considers three interventions made by Castañeda that express this semi-peripheral approach and have lasting relevance. First, it shows how, by focusing on the interests of small powers, Castañeda's work in the 1950s departed from functionalist optimism and stressed the tension between rule by international organizations and domestic rule, emphasizing the centrality of the reserved domain and drawing lessons for strategic legal engagement for small powers. Second, this article studies how Castañeda's concern for the cause of small powers shaped his views on regionalism, grounding his critique of Pan-Americanism and his vindication of the United Nations (UN) to attenuate the perils of regionalism. Third, this article retrieves Castañeda's defence of the UN General Assembly as a platform for international law-making, contextualizes it within the rise of decolonization and explores the implications for his earlier sceptical views about the expansion of UN powers. The article concludes by highlighting the significance of the thought of semi-peripheral jurists for any efforts aimed at re-theorizing international organizations.

This article proposes a processual–relational perspective on region-making and its effects in world politics. It revisits the concepts of regionalism and regionalisation to unearth the relational mechanisms underlying these archetypical pathways of regional emergence. Regionalism refers to the bounding of regions – the definition of its inside and outside, and of which actors fall on either side. Regionalisation denotes the binding of regions, the amalgamations of relations around a shared territoriality. I argue that regions affect world politics in their making through the boundaries raised and relations produced in the process. I then mobilise network theory and analysis to propose a framework for studying the making and makings of regions. Regions' binding and bounding are rooted in brokerage dynamics that sustain clusters of relations denser inside a regional boundary, rather than outside, and allow some actors to control interactions across that boundary. I illustrate this framework with a case study on the emergence of the Amazon as a region in world politics. I analyse interaction networks in UN-level environmental negotiations involving the ecosystem. The analysis shows how the making of the Amazon has been tied to preserving the position of Amazonian states as the main brokers, speaking for and acting on behalf of the region.

AbstractThis article proposes a processual–relational perspective on region-making and its effects in world politics. It revisits the concepts of regionalism and regionalisation to unearth the relational mechanisms underlying these archetypical pathways of regional emergence. Regionalism refers to the bounding of regions – the definition of its inside and outside, and of which actors fall on either side. Regionalisation denotes the binding of regions, the amalgamations of relations around a shared territoriality. I argue that regions affect world politics in their making through the boundaries raised and relations produced in the process. I then mobilise network theory and analysis to propose a framework for studying the making and makings of regions. Regions' binding and bounding are rooted in brokerage dynamics that sustain clusters of relations denser inside a regional boundary, rather than outside, and allow some actors to control interactions across that boundary. I illustrate this framework with a case study on the emergence of the Amazon as a region in world politics. I analyse interaction networks in UN-level environmental negotiations involving the ecosystem. The analysis shows how the making of the Amazon has been tied to preserving the position of Amazonian states as the main brokers, speaking for and acting on behalf of the region.