REGIONALISM IN THE AMERICAS (4 Credits)
Learning outcomes:
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: identify key perspectives and concepts on regionalism; describe important development of regionalism that takes place in American Hemisphere; explain issues and policy options that affect the development of regionalism in America; analyze the systemic change that affects the development of regionalism in America.
Topics:
- Contending perspectives of regionalism: between regionalism and regionalization;
- Regionalism versus globalization;
- Hegemony and Regionalization – Free trade Area of the America (FTAA) – Evolution and its demise;
- Free trade as a tool of US hegemony;
- Re-mapping trade relations in the Americas;
- CARICOM and Latin America;
- Latin America and China’s Peaceful Rise;
- FTAA and EPA for Small Developing Countries;
- Regional Governance and multilateralism in the Americas;
- The Rise and Decline of Caribbean Integration;
- Regional security in the Americas;
- The role of Civil Society in Regional Integration in the Americas;
- Liberalization and human (in) security;
- Formal Liberal Democracy in Latin America;
- Democracy and the free market in Latin America;
- Introduction to Regionalism: regional studies decoded.
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