The Relevance of Regions in a Globalized World

Bridging the Social Sciences-Humanities Gap
Herausgeber: Press-Barnathan, Galia; Kacowicz, Arie M; Fine, Ruth

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides an unique open inter-disciplinary dialogue across the Humanities and Social Sciences to further our understanding of the phenomenon of regions and regionalism in a globalized world both at the theoretical and empirical levels.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 20
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781138554733
• ISBN-10: 1138554731
• Artikelnr.: 54649805

Autorenporträt

Galia Press-Barnathan is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Ruth Fine is Salomon and Victoria Cohen Professor in Iberian and Latin American Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, where she acted as Director of the European Forum and of the Institute of Western Cultures. Arie M. Kacowicz is Professor of International Relations and the Chaim Weizmann Chair in International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Regions in a Globalized World: Bridging the Social
Sciences-Humanities Gap
Chapter Two: Preferential Trade Agreements in the Developing World
Chapter Three: Linking Economic Performance and Regional Institutionalism:
More Local, Less Global?
Chapter Four: Overlapping Regionalism and Region-Building in Africa
Chapter Five: Focusing on Regions as the Way to Understand War and Peace
Chapter Six: A New Cultural Geography of East Asia: Imagining a 'Region'
through Popular Culture
Chapter Seven: Nationalism, Religion, and Sub-State National Identity in
Southeast Asia: Regional and Global Relevance
Chapter Eight: The Middle East: A Volatile Region in Transition
Chapter Nine: The Cantonese Pacific in the Making of Nations
Chapter Ten: 'Linguistic Peace'? Reflections on the Interstate Security
Consequences of Iberian American Linguistic Kinships versus European
Linguistic Fragmentation
Chapter Eleven: Regions of History: The International Congress for the
Defense of Culture, Paris 1935
Chapter Twelve: The Role of Translatio/n in the Constitution of Community
(Regional) Identities: The Interdependence of Europe and Latin America
Chapter Thirteen: How the Ethiopians Changed their Skin: The Orient,
Africa, and their Diasporas
Chapter Fourteen: Conclusions: Imagining, Perceiving, Constructing,
Explaining, and Understanding Regions