During the heyday of globalization, regionalism flourished: commercial and financial liberalization provided fertile ground for regional initiatives, which continued to proliferate throughout the 2000s even as some regions — notably Latin America — pursued more politically and socially oriented models of integration. Today, regional organizations and initiatives persist against a markedly more hostile backdrop of geopolitical tensions, rising protectionism, multilateral crisis, and the erosion of the liberal international order. Why do they endure, and how? These are the central questions animating the two volumes of Essays on Global Regionalism. To discuss the books' contributions to EU-LAC regionalism and interregionalism, four experts in European and Latin American regionalism involved in the volumes were welcomed.
Two of the editors of the book, Juliana Peixoto Batista (FLACSO Argentina) and Philippe de Lombaerde (UNU-CRIS).
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Maria Victoria Alvarez (Universidad Nacional de Rosario-UNR) and Frank Mattheis (UNU-CRIS).
