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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787168003321

Titolo

Regional integration and modernity : cross-Atlantic perspectives / / edited by Natalie J. Doyle and Lorenza Sebesta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-9482-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Disciplina

337.1/42

Soggetti

Regionalism - Europe - History

Civilization, Modern - History

Europe Economic integration History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Editors' Note; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Interwar Plans for European Economic Integration; Chapter Two: International Municipalism between the Wars; Chapter Three: Talcott Parsons, Carl J. Friedrich, and the Conceptualization of European Integration; Chapter Four: Theories of Modernization in Latin America; Chapter Five: Alexandre Kojève and the Reinvention of Modernity; Chapter Six: Judicial Globalization; Chapter Seven: Agencies to Modernize Integration?; Chapter Eight: Government-Industry Relations in Argentina

Chapter Nine: Multinational Companies and the Peripheral Automotive Space in MERCOSURChapter Ten: The Depoliticizing Logic of European Economic Integration; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>This book analyzes how modernization and economic integration were viewed in Europe, as the means of rebuilding European leadership after World War I, and in Latin America, as the key to growth and self-determination. </span></span>