"This book was published as the fruit of a three-year and five-year research between 2008-2011 and 2008-2013 respectively about the 'The enlarged EU and East Asian regional cooperation in the international politics - integration, security and social security.'"--p. 1

This book investigates efforts to promote the political and economic unification of Latin America. The author argues that the political unification of Latin America has been stymied by the political class, but that this trend is currently being reversed. The Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR)...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Sustaining South Asia’s Regional Integration Process -- Chapter 3. Bay of Bengal Integration: The New Agenda -- Chapter 4. Three Decades of SAARC and the Unfinished Agenda of Regional Integration -- Chapter 5. Harnessing the Potential of Regional Value...

Part I: Borders, Mobility And Integration In Africa: Concepts And Issues -- Chapter 1: Borders, human mobility, integration and development in Africa: An introduction -- Chapter 2: Imagining borders, borderlands, migration and integration in Africa: The search for connections and disjunctures --...

Mesoamerica is a region characterised by high poverty levels, large urban-rural disparities, and a large informal economy, but also having a strategic location, rich natural and cultural resources, and light manufacturing. This pioneering study of the OECD examines how Mesoamerica could better...