POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Peer Pressure, Big Business, Execution Unit
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Regionalism: regional organizations and regionalisation: theory and. Old was rooted in the circumstances of the cold war, when regional coop in western euro was directly and consistently affected by the circumstances of the cold war. For many other regions, the eu"s econ and developmental successes stimulated a wider, extra-europ urge to merge": the linked emergence of what the ir scholar christiansen calls. Fortress europe/sem" provided a new impetus to encourage dynamic regional coop in regions outside europe. Old focused primarily on state-level commitments: new shifted attention beyond gov"ts to include various groups of non-state actors such as trade unions, business interests and women"s groups, the north american free trade agreement. Nafta has to coordinate b/w only 3 gov"ts compared to eu"s 27, which makes it a lot easier to come to agreements on policies, etc. Resulted in better human rights control etc in mexico; and democratization. Several sets of circumstances that nafta shares w/ the eu.
