The Relevance of Regions in a Globalized World
This volume provides a unique open inter-disciplinary dialogue across the Humanities and Social Sciences to further our understanding of the phenomenon of regions and regionalism in a globalized world both at the theoretical and empirical levels.
What comprises a region? What are the different regional dynamic processes that take place? What is the relationship between the regional and the global? What role does identity building play? Bringing together scholars from various disciplines within and across the Social Sciences and the Humanities to reflect on these questions, the book explores how regions are imagined, constructed, understood, and explained in different academic disciplines. Each chapter addresses these common questions and uses its own disciplinary lenses to answer them. In addition, the volume offers interesting reflections on the academic borders constructed in the study of regions, thus demonstrating the importance of obtaining insights from both social scientists and humanities scholars in order to better understand the relevance of regions in a complex and globalized world.
An important work for scholars and postgraduate students in many fields, including political science, international relations, sociology, economics, geography, history, and literature, as well as for those interested in regionalism and area studies.
Galia Press-Barnathan is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Ruth Fine is Salomon and Victoria Cohen Professor in Iberian and Latin American Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, where she acted as Director of the European Forum and of the Institute of Western Cultures.
Arie M. Kacowicz is Professor of International Relations and the Chaim Weizmann Chair in International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
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The Relevance of Regions in a Globalized World
Bridging the Social SciencesHumanities Gap
Edited by Galia Press-Barnathan, Ruth Fine and Arie M. Kacowicz
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The Relevance of Regions in a Globalized World
Bridging the Social SciencesHumanities Gap
Edited by Galia Press-Barnathan, Ruth Fine and Arie M. Kacowicz
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Names: Press-Barnathan, Galia, 1967 editor. | Fine, Ruth, 1957 editor. | Kacowicz, Arie Marcelo, editor.
Title: The relevance of regions in a globalized world : bridging the social sciences-humanities gap / edited by Galia PressBarnathan, Ruth Fine and Arie Kacowicz.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Series: The international political economy of new regionalisms series | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018033384 | ISBN 9781138554733 (hbk) | ISBN 9781315149141 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: RegionalismSocial aspects. | Regional economicsSocial aspects. | GlobalizationSocial asepcts.
Classification: LCC JF197 .R49 2019 | DDC 306.2dc23
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ISBN: 978-1-138-55473-3 (hbk)
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Contents
GALIA PRESS-BARNATHAN, RUTH FINE, AND ARIE M. KACOWICZ
EDWARD D. MANSFIELD
YORAM Z. HAFTEL AND DANIEL F. WAJNER
CHRISTOF HARTMANN
BENJAMIN MILLER
NISSIM OTMAZGIN
JACQUES BERTRAND
AVRAHAM SELA
HENRY YU
CARLOS ESCUD
SUSANNE ZEPP
MICHAEL ROESSNER
STEVEN KAPLAN
GALIA PRESS-BARNATHAN, RUTH FINE, AND ARIE M. KACOWICZ
Jacques Bertrand is Professor and Associate Chair (Graduate Studies) in the Department of Political Science, and Director of the Collaborative Masters Program in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Canada. His work has focused mainly on ethnic conflict, nationalism, and democratic politics in Southeast Asia. He is currently working on two book manuscripts: Democratization and Substate Nationalist Conflict in Southeast Asia, and Institutionalizing Minority Representation in Post-Transition Myanmar. His books include Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Indonesia (Cambridge, 2004); Multination States in Asia: Accommodation or Resistance
