Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction. Cities and Regions in the Twenty-First Century: Why Do They Develop and Change? -- Part I. The Economic Context of City and Regional Development -- 2. Workshops of the World Economy: People, Jobs, and Places -- 3. The Motor of Urban...

Introduction: how regional institutions promote peace -- Theorizing institutional design and conflict -- The landscape of regional economic organizations -- The effect of regional institutionalization on violent conflict -- Institutional design, violent conflict, and reversed causality --...