Globalization, Regionalization and Business: Conflict, Convergence and Influence (International Political Economy Series)

Organized Business Interests in the Mercosur: Setting the SceneStudying Organized Business Interests in the Mercosur: A Theoretical Framework for AnalysisStructures of Business Interest Articulation in the Mercosur: The National and the Regional DimensionThe Relationship between Domestic and Regional Organized Business Interests in the Mercosur: Conflict and ConvergenceTwo Case Studies of Interest Representation within Organized Business: The Chemical Industry in the Mercosur and the MEBFThe Regionalization of Organized Business Interests in the Mercosur: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis Organized Business Interests in the Mercosur: Conflict, Convergence, and Influence The book provides new insight into the role of organised business interests. It supports the concept of political economy and demonstrates how it transcends the limitations of CPE or IPE, to form a coherent whole. The book maps the conflict, convergence and influence of organized business interests in the context of regional integration. The book provides new empirical insight into the role of organised business interests in processes of regionalization and globalization. Through a synthesis of comparative political economy and international political economy, the book supports the concept of political economy and demonstrates how it transcends the inherent limitations of either CPE or IPE, to form a coherent whole. Utilizing new empirical material within this framework, the book maps the conflict, convergence and influence of organised business interests in the context of regional integration in the Southern Cone of Latin America, using the Mercosur as an example "This book provides a new empirical insight into the role of organized business interests in processes of regionalization and globalization. Through a synthesis of comparative political economy and international political economy, the book supports the concept of political economy and demonstrates how it transcends the inherent limitations of either CPE or IPE, to form a coherent whole. Utilizing new empirical material within this framework, the book maps the conflict, convergence and influence of organized business interests in the context of regional integration in the Southern Cone of Latin America, using the Mercosur as an example."--Jacket