The Political Economy of Regionalism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction

   • Fredrik Söderbaum

   Pages 1-14

3. Reviewing the Theoretical Landscape

   • Fredrik Söderbaum

   Pages 15-36

4. Theorizing the New Regionalism Approach

   • Fredrik Söderbaum

   Pages 37-53

5. The Historical Construction of ‘Southern Africa’

   • Fredrik Söderbaum

   Pages 54-67

6. The Political Economy of Formal and Informal Regionalism

   • Fredrik Söderbaum

   Pages 68-114

7. Civil Society Regionalism

   • Fredrik Söderbaum

   Pages 115-136

8. The Political Economy of Shared River Basins: the Case of the Zambezi

   • Fredrik Söderbaum

   Pages 137-159

9. The Political Economy of Micro-regionalism: the Case of the Maputo Development Corridor

   • Fredrik Söderbaum

   Pages 160-192

10. Conclusion

    • Fredrik Söderbaum

    Pages 193-214

11. Back Matter

    Pages 215-251

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The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Case of Southern Africa challenges prevailing wisdom, showing how ruling political elites and 'big business' join forces with certain external actors in order to promote market integration and economic globalization, boost regimes, and to satisfy group-specific and even personal interests. Only rarely do these forms of regionalism contribute to the poor and disadvantaged, who instead opt out, and survive through informal economic regionalisms or seek to create regionalisms rooted in civil society.

• Civil society
• development
• economy
• globalization
• integration
• political economy

• Department of Peace and Development Research, Göteborg University (Padrigu), Sweden

  Fredrik Söderbaum

• United Nations University/Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU/CRIS), Bruges, Belgium

  Fredrik Söderbaum

FREDRIK SÖDERBAUM is at the Department of Peace and Development Research, Göteborg University (Padrigu), and the United Nations University/Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU/CRIS). Recent books include Regionalization in a Globalizing World, Theories of New Regionalism, The New Regionalism of Africa, Regionalism and Uneven Development in Southern Africa: The Case of the Maputo Development Corridor.

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