The Rise of Post-Hegemonic Regionalism

16This book offers a timely analysis, and a novel and nuanced argument about post-neoliberal models of regional governance in non-European contexts. It provides the first in-depth, empirically-driven analysis of current models of regional governance in Latin America that emerged out of the crisis of liberalism in the region. It contributes to comparative studies of the contemporary global political economy as it advances current literature on the topic by analysing distinctive, overlapping and conflicting trajectories of regionalism in Latin America. The book critically explores models of transformative regionalism and specific dimensions articulating those models beyond neoliberal consensus-building. As such it contests the overstated case of integration as converging towards global capitalism. It provides an analytical framework that not only examines the 'what, how, who and why' in the emergence of a specific form of regionalism but sets the ground for addressing two relevant que16stions that will push the study of regionalism further: What factors enable or constrain how transformative a given regionalism is (or can be) with respect to the powers and policies of states encompassed by it? and: What factors govern how resilient a given regionalism is likely to be under changing political and economic conditions? 041. Introduction: Crisis, Resilience and Transformation: Regionalism in the South ; Diana Tussie and Pía Riggirozzi.- 2. Beyond Continuity: Region, Regionness and Regionalism in Latin America; Pía Riggirozzi.- 3. Consistency despite Instability, Resilience despite Crises: Explaining the Apparent Oxymoron ; Olivier Dabene.- 4. Socio-Environmental Regionalisation in South America: Tensions in the New Development Models ; Marcelo Saguier.- 5. Regionalization in New Scenarios: Is Civil Society Participation Closing the Democratic Deficit in South American Regionalism? ;Andrés Serbin.- 6. The Rise of Monetary Agreements in South America ; Pablo Trucco.- 7. Regional Defense in a Post Hegemonic Context: The South American Defense Council ; Jorge Battaglino.- 8. A Leader without Followers? The Growing Divergence between the Regional and Global Performance of Brazilian Foreign Policy; Andrés Malamud.- 9. Conclusion: The Political Economy of Post-Hegemonic Regionalism in Latin America; Dian04a Tussie and Pía Riggirozzi.-