COMPARATIVE REGIONALISM
This book comprises key essays on comparative regionalism and, more broadly, on regional conflict and cooperation by Professor Etel Solingen.
The study of regionalism, a subject pioneered by Solingen in the 1990s, is now an established field of inquiry, with a large community of scholars and practitioners around the world. This book provides a window into an evolving conceptual framework for comparing regional arrangements, with a special emphasis on non-European regions. Framed by a comprehensive, previously unpublished introduction, the chapters provide a broad spectrum of analysis on domestic political economy, democracy, regional institutions, and global forces as they shape different regional outcomes and trajectories in economics and security. Themes as different as the regional effects of democratization in the Middle East and East Asia, the rise of China, Euro-Mediterranean relations, and regional nuclear trajectories are traced back to a common conceptual core. The nature of domestic ruling coalitions serves as the pivotal analytical anchor explaining the effects of globalization and economic reform on different regional arrangements.
This collection provides a focal point that brings this work together in a new light and will be of much interest to students of regionalism, international relations theory, international and comparative political economy, international history and grand strategy.
Etel Solingen is Thomas T. and Elizabeth C. Tierney Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California Irvine, USA, and former Chancellors Professor. She served as president of the International Studies Association.
Etel Solingen is one of the leading scholars in the world who helped recreate the field of comparative regional analysis. Put conveniently between two covers, the chapters in this book summarize her trenchant and highly original views. A standard reference work for all serious scholars for years to come.
Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University, USA
Etel Solingens work has provided unique contributions to our understanding of regionalism. Her detailed knowledge of three major regions East Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East is the underpinning for insights into the forces shaping regional orders around the world. This superb volume will be required reading for all who are interested in the relationship between globalization, regionalism and domestic political coalitions.
John Ravenhill, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada
Etel Solingen is one the most distinguished and thoughtful scholars of regionalism. Comparative Regionalism: Economics and Security includes some of her most important and influential work on this topic. Skillfully blending novel theoretical insights with a broad empirical sweep, Solingens study will be of interest to scholars of comparative politics and international relations alike.
Edward Mansfield, University of Pennsylvania, USA
COMPARATIVE REGIONALISM
Economics and security
Etel Solingen
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Solingen, Etel, 1952-
Comparative regionalism : economics and security / Etel Solingen.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Regionalism. 2. Regional economics. 3. Security, International.
4. International relations. I.Title.
JZ5330.S65 2014
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2014007453
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CONTENTS
PART I
Globalization, economic reform, and regional relations
PART II
Regional effects of democratic institutions
PART III
Regional institutions: Sources, design and effects
PART IV
Regional security trajectories
The author and publishers would like to thank the following for granting permission to reprint segments or adapted versions of the originals:
: Figure 1 originally appeared in Etel Solingen, The global context of comparative politics, in Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure, 2nd Edition, edited by Mark Irving Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman, Copyright 2009 Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission.
: Adapted from Etel Solingen, Regional Orders at Centurys Dawn: Global and Domestic Influences on Grand Strategy. Princeton University Press, 1998: 1889.
: Adapted from Etel Solingen, Mapping Internationalization: Domestic and Regional impacts. International Studies Quarterly, 45, 4 (2001): 517556.
: Adapted from Etel Solingen Pax Asiatica versus Bella Levantina: The Foundations of War and Peace in East Asia and the Middle East. American Political Science Review, 101, No. 4 (November 2007): 757780.
: Adapted from Etel Solingen, Democratization in the Middle East: Quandaries of the Peace Process.This article first appeared in the Journal of Democracy, Vol. 7, No. 3 (July 1996): 139153. Copyright 1996 National Endowment for Democracy and the Johns Hopkins University Press. Reprinted with permission by The Johns Hopkins University Press
: Adapted from Etel Solingen, Economic and Political Liberalization in China: Implications for US-China Relations. In Richard Rosecrance and Gu Guoliang, eds., Power and Restraint: A Shared Vision for the U.S.-China Relationship (Public Affairs, 2009): 6778.
: Adapted from Etel Solingen, The Genesis, Design and Effects of Regional Institutions: Lessons from East Asia and the Middle East, International Studies Quarterly, 52, 1 (June 2008): 261294.
: Adapted from Etel Solingen, The Triple Logic of the European-Mediterranean Partnership: Hindsight and Foresight. International Politics, Vol. 40, No. 2 (June 2003): 179194.
: Reprinted from Etel Solingen, Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2007): 249-299.
This collection of essays builds on a core argument first developed in the early 1990s in articles not reproduced in this volume for reasons of space (see references, particularly Solingen 1994a, 1994b). Europe represented the lion share of studies related to regionalism at the time, when research comparing other regions in the post-Cold War era was embryonic. Indeed much of the study of regionalism back then was cast in the language of regional integration that typified scholarship on Europe. My own interest, however, lied in exploring the deep and complex connections between global, regional, and domestic orders in what is now labelled the emerging world. I found the nature of domestic coalitions forming in response to globalization a convenient analytical anchor at the vortex of those connections.
