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Despite all the attention placed on globalization and its processes, regional integration mechanisms continue to hold a pivotal position in world affairs. The global governance structure is marked by a patchwork of authority. This sense of complex design comes to the fore with respect to the myriad of regionalization projects currently in existence. Although the debates surrounding the European approaches and concepts maintain a privileged position, variants located in other regional projects deserve closer examination. This requirement is no more apparent than in the Americas where the process of regionalization has a long history and is currently becoming increasingly complex, contested and fluid.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Political Science and School of Advanced International Studies, Université Laval, Canada

    Gordon Mace (Professor and Director of the Inter-American Studies Centre) (Professor and Director of the Inter-American Studies Centre)

  2. The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Canada

    Andrew F. Cooper (Distinguished Fellow and Professor) & Timothy M. Shaw (Professor and Director and Senior Fellow) (Distinguished Fellow and Professor) &  (Professor and Director and Senior Fellow)

  3. Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, Canada

    Andrew F. Cooper (Distinguished Fellow and Professor) (Distinguished Fellow and Professor)

  4. Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

    Timothy M. Shaw (Professor and Director and Senior Fellow) (Professor and Director and Senior Fellow)

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Mace, G., Cooper, A.F., Shaw, T.M. (2010). Introduction. In: Mace, G., Cooper, A.F., Shaw, T.M. (eds) Inter-American Cooperation at a Crossroads. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230294837_1

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