Governing Regional Integration for Development (The International Political Economy of New Regionalisms Series)

Many developing countries have joined the rapidly growing global system of regional trade agreements (RTAs) over the past years. The drive towards regional integration has advanced with the formation of new markets and new groups in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Oceania with few developing countries remaining outside these regional schemes.This volume looks at how 'getting governance right' is a central element for successful RTA implementation. It operationalizes governance in the context of RTA implementation with a more narrow and technical term of 'monitoring' and provides eight important lessons for assessing monitoring around the world. Governing Regional Integration For Development: Introduction / Philippe De Lombaerde, Antoni Estevadeordal And Kati Suominen -- Latin America And The Caribbean -- Monitoring Regional Integration And Cooperation In The Andean Region / Fernando Prada And Alvaro Espinoza -- 'learning To Integrate': The Experience Of Monitoring The Caricom Single Market And Economy / Norman Girvan -- Monitoring Regional Integration: The Case Of Central America / Kati Suominen -- Monitoring Regional Integration And Cooperation: The Case Of Mercosur / Ricardo Rozemberg And Carlos Bozzalla -- Asia And The Pacific -- Results-based Monitoring Of Regional Integration And Cooperation In Asean / Cuong Nguyen And Clay Wescott -- Regional Monitoring In The Pacific: The Pacific Islands Forum / William Sutherland -- Monitoring Regional Integration And Cooperation In South Asia / Rodrigo Tavares -- Africa And The Middle East -- Monitoring Rregional Integration And Cooperation In The Gulf Region / Bernard Savage -- Monitoring Regional Integration And Cooperation In The South: The Arab Maghreb Union / Thouka Al-khalidi -- Monitoring Regional Integration In Eastern And Southern Africa / Dirk Hansohm And Jonathan Adongo -- Europe And North America -- Monitoring And (good) Governance Of The Integration Process In The European Union / Ana-cristina Costea, Philippe De Lombaerde, Wouter De Vriendt And Birger Fühne -- Seasoned Monitoring: The Case Of North America / Kati Suominen -- Governing Regional Integration For Development / Summary And Conclusions, Philippe De Lombaerde, Antoni Estevadeordal And Kati Suominen. Edited By Philippe De Lombaerde, Antoni Estevadeordal And Kati Suominen. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents......Page 6 List of Figures......Page 8 List of Tables......Page 9 List of Boxes......Page 11 List of Contributors......Page 12 List of Acronyms......Page 14 1 Governing Regional Integration for Development: Introduction......Page 22 PART 1: LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN......Page 29 2 Monitoring Regional Integration and Cooperation in the Andean Region......Page 31 3 'Learning to Integrate': The Experience of Monitoring the CARICOM Single Market and Economy......Page 51 4 Monitoring Regional Integration: The Case of Central America......Page 77 5 Monitoring Regional Integration and Cooperation: The Case of Mercosur......Page 105 PART 2: ASIA AND THE PACIFIC......Page 121 6 Results-Based Monitoring of Regional Integration and Cooperation in ASEAN......Page 123 7 Regional Monitoring in the Pacific: The Pacific Islands Forum......Page 145 8 Monitoring Regional Integration and Cooperation in South Asia......Page 161 PART 3: AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST......Page 181 9 Monitoring Regional Integration and Cooperation in the Gulf Region......Page 183 10 Monitoring Regional Integration and Cooperation in the South: The Arab Maghreb Union......Page 199 11 Monitoring Regional Integration in Eastern and Southern Africa......Page 211 PART 4: EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA......Page 229 12 Monitoring and (Good) Governance of the Integration Process in the European Union......Page 231 13 Seasoned Monitoring: The Case of North America......Page 267 14 Governing Regional Integration for Development: Summary and Conclusions......Page 295 C......Page 305 E......Page 306 M......Page 307 P......Page 308 T......Page 309 W......Page 310 Developing countries have joined the rapidly growing global system of regional trade agreements (RTAs) over the past years. The drive towards regional integration has advanced with the formation of new markets and groups in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Oceania with few developing countries remaining outside these regional schemes. This volume looks at how'getting governance right'is a central element for successful RTA implementation, taking stock of the quality and effectiveness of the monitoring of development country RTAs around the world. Organized by the main world regions and primarily focusing on developing country RTAs, the book also includes two case studies focused on monitoring in developed country regional agreements by way of comparison. The contributors operationalize governance in the context of RTA implementation with a more narrow and technical term of'monitoring'and provide eight important lessons for assessing monitoring around the world. Many developing countries have joined the rapidly growing global system of regional trade agreements (RTAs) over the past years. The drive towards regional integration has advanced with the formation of new markets and new groups in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Oceania with few developing countries remaining outside these regional schemes. This volume looks at how 'getting governance right' is a central element for successful RTA implementation. It operationalizes governance in the context of RTA implementation with a more narrow and technical term of 'monitoring' and provides eight important lessons for assessing monitoring around the world This volume looks at how 'getting governance right' is a central element for successful RTA implementation, taking stock of the quality and effectiveness of the monitoring of development country RTAs around the world. Organized by the main world regions and primarily focusing on developing country RTAs, the book also includes two case studies focused on monitoring in developed country regional agreements by way of comparison. The contributors operationalize governance in the context of RTA implementation with a more narrow and technical term of 'monitoring' and provide eight important lessons for assessing monitoring around the world."--pub. desc Developing countries have joined the rapidly growing global system of regional trade agreements (RTAs) over the past years. This volume looks at how 'getting governance right' is a central element for successful RTA implementation, taking stock of the quality and effectiveness of the monitoring of development country RTAs around the world