Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments and Preface; Acronyms; Part 1 Introduction; One: Historical and Theoretical Guideline; Part 2 Political Instrumentalization of Regional Economic Integration; Two: Resolving Regional Crises; Three: Building a Collective Defense of Democracy; Part 3 Design and Development of Institutions; Four: Institutional Isomorphism; Five: Scope and Level of Integration: Explaining a Mismatch; Part 4 Democratizing Regional Integration; Six: The Parliamentary Option; Seven: Integration from Below; Eight: Integration and Common Goods
Summary
This book explores the widely admitted failure of regional integration in this continent, linking the features of regional institutional arrangements with domestic politics and includes an inquiry into regionalism at the hemispherical level
