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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doyle, Natalie, editor.

Sebesta, Lorenza, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regionalism--Europe--History.

Regionalism.

Civilization, Modern--History.

Civilization, Modern.

Europe--Economic integration--History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<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>

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7391-9482-8

OCLC:

892430125