CfP Regional Integration, SASE 2002

Please forward this Call for Papers to
interested colleagues

Call for Papers

for a panel Do Regional Integration Processes Matter? Comparing
European, American and Asian Experiences in the framework of the SASE
Research Network "Markets and Institutions" at the Conference
“Work and Labor in the Global Economy” of the Society for the Advancement
of Socio-Economics (SASE,
www.sase.org)
at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, June 27 - June 30,
2002

This panel is aimed at revitalizing the tradition of comparative
regional integration studies. Regional integration processes are
usually topics of research within specialized regionally oriented
networks of scholars. Until the mid-1970s, however, there was a vivid
practice of comparative analyses of regional integration, as part of the
neofunctionalist research program.

Recently there has been renewed interest in the debate on a general
theory of regional integration, caused by the proliferation of these
phenomena in all world regions and inspired by new theories of
international relations, international political economy and world
systems-research.

The role of regional integration processes in the world-system is
often too narrowly analyzed in terms of economic aggregates or reduced to
participation in international negotiations. This omits the fact that
global competition is also intrinsically a form of competition between
socio-economic trajectories and specific institutional patterns. What is
the role of regional integration processes in this competition? Are they
just elements of a global process of competitive economic liberalization,
or do they shape economic and social processes in the countries involved
decisively?

If you are interested, please send an e-mail to
ziltener@mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de soon.
The deadline for submitting proposals to SASE is Dec., 15.



Patrick Ziltener

Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Paulstrasse 3, D - 50676 Koeln, Germany
Tel. 0049 (0)221-2767 162
Fax  0049 (0)221-2767 555
e-mail: ziltener@mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de
http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de