ABSTRACT
This edited volume explains the importance of regional public goods (RPGs) for sustainable development and shows why they are particularly important in the context of 21st-century international relations. By presenting a new and original data set and by presenting original essays by renowned scholars, this book lays the foundation for what will become an increasingly important focus for both economic development and international relations as well as for their intersection.
The volume contains four parts. The first introduces the core issues and concepts that are explored throughout the book as well as a new and original data set on RPGs. The second part further develops specific concepts important for understanding 21st-century RPGs: regional leadership, alliances, networks, and outcomes. The third examines how cooperation takes place worldwide for a range of important RPGs. Finally, the fourth part discusses how public goods are produced in specific regions, stressing that each region has a distinct context and that these contexts overlap in a decentered "multiplex" manner.
Global economic cooperation will be different in the 21st century, and this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of global governance, economic development, international political economy, sustainable development, and comparative regionalism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|36 pages
Introduction
chapter 2|23 pages
Regional public goods cooperation
part II|80 pages
Regional leadership, alliances, networks, and outcomes
chapter 3|16 pages
Regionalism in the evolving world order
chapter 5|44 pages
Can regional standards be above the national norm?
part III|119 pages
New frontiers in functional cooperation
chapter 10|13 pages
Building regional environmental governance
part IV|123 pages
Old and new regions in a multiplex world