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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.
Sommario
Chapter One: Regions in a Globalized World: Bridging the Social Sciences-Humanities Gap
Chapter Two: Preferential Trade Agreements in the Developing World
Chapter Three: Linking Economic Performance and Regional Institutionalism: More Local, Less Global?
Chapter Four: Overlapping Regionalism and Region-Building in Africa
Chapter Five: Focusing on Regions as the Way to Understand War and Peace
Chapter Six: A New Cultural Geography of East Asia: Imagining a 'Region' through Popular Culture
Chapter Seven: Nationalism, Religion, and Sub-State National Identity in Southeast Asia: Regional and Global Relevance
Chapter Eight: The Middle East: A Volatile Region in Transition
Chapter Nine: The Cantonese Pacific in the Making of Nations
Chapter Ten: 'Linguistic Peace'? Reflections on the Interstate Security Consequences of Iberian American Linguistic Kinships versus European Linguistic Fragmentation
Chapter Eleven: Regions of History: The International Congress for the Defense of Culture, Paris 1935
Chapter Twelve: The Role of Translatio/n in the Constitution of Community (Regional) Identities: The Interdependence of Europe and Latin America
Chapter Thirteen: How the Ethiopians Changed their Skin: The Orient, Africa, and their Diasporas
Chapter Fourteen: Conclusions: Imagining, Perceiving, Constructing, Explaining, and Understanding Regions
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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.
Riassunto
This volume provides an 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.
