Bücher der Reihe United Nations University Series on Regionalism

This volume addresses the historical structures and current dynamics of Oman¿s regionalization processes and their political, economic and social dimensions. It is based on an interdisciplinary and trans-regional dialogue between scholars from different social sciences and area studies such as political science, economics, management, economic and social geography, history, social anthropology and linguistics as well as Middle East/West Asian, gulf and African studies, and develops four major axes of research:- Oman¿s integration into global and regional flows of goods, capital, people and ideas;- The multi-scaled political negotiation of such integration (or disintegration) processes;- Consequences of suchlike processes and forms of regionalization for (translocal) actors;- Ideas and strategic communication of regional belonging and the constitution of regions.Each chapter deals with one or more of these issues. Part I deals with concepts of regionalisation and region-building and presents different approaches that accentuate certain dimensions of these processes and come from different disciplinary backgrounds. Part II focuses on the translocal, transnational and (trans)regional movement of people, their practices and imaginations, be they contemporary labour in- and out-migrants, returnees from Eastern Africa or nomadic tribal members. Part III takes a closer look particularly at economic issues and regionalisation processes that are mainly based on multiple trade links, regional development policies or politics of regionalism. Part IV analyses political and socio-cultural issues in regional and global perspectives.

It touches upon issues such as regional representation at the UN, high-level dialogues with regional organisations, as well as the coordination of UN member states' voting behaviour in the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council.

This volume presents a reconsideration of the concepts of State and political power within the evolving multilateral network of cooperation and conflict.

This analysis of one of the central issues of the our times focuses on Latin America, providing the first in-depth and empirically driven analysis of the models of regional governance in Latin America that have now emerged out of the 'crisis of liberalism'.

This part shows how effective states can be built on the African continent, a process that would result in a change from state fragility to state resilience.