Rethinking the "new regionalism" in the context of globalization

Global Governance

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 189-213

  Mittelman, James H ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0030306863     PISSN: 10752846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/19426720-002-02-90000004     Document Type: Review

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1. This article is part of a larger project, "The New Regionalism," sponsored by the United Nations University's (UNU) World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) and directed by Björn Hettne. Some of the ideas in this essay were developed under the auspices of the Programme on Multilateralism and the United Nations System, a project also sponsored by the UNU, and through discussions with the program coordinator, Robert W. Cox. I am indebted to Mustapha Pasha, who generously shared documentary material; Meliton Salazar, whose research assistance was invaluable; and Linda Yarr, for criticism of an earlier draft of this manuscript. I thank Global Governance's three anonymous reviewers, whose probing comments contributed greatly to this study. For supporting my field work, I am grateful to the World Society Foundation and the Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York. The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, where I was a Visiting Fellow in 1991, and the Department of Sociology at the University of Witwatersrand graciously hosted me and facilitated my research.
2. Some of these elements are integral to a Coxian framework for explaining the dynamics of the global political economy. See Robert W. Cox, Production, Power and World Order: Social Forces in the Making of History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987); Cox with Timothy J. Sinclair, Approaches to World Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
3. Some of these elements are integral to a Coxian framework for explaining the dynamics of the global political economy. See Robert W. Cox, Production, Power and World Order: Social Forces in the Making of History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987); Cox with Timothy J. Sinclair, Approaches to World Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
4. Paragraphs in this section have been adapted from James H. Mittelman, "Global Restructuring of Production and Migration," in Yoshikazu Sakamoto, ed., Global Transformation: Challenges to the State System (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1984), pp. 276-298.
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