Summer Course “Comparative Regionalisms: Changing Forms of Governance in Asia, Africa and the Americas and the Effects on the World Order”

Summer Course “Comparative Regionalisms: Changing Forms of Governance in Asia, Africa and the Americas and the Effects on the World Order” at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, June 23-July 3, 2014

CEU's summer school invites applications from graduate students, junior faculty, researchers and practitioners in universities and other institutions from all over the world. The course fosters new approaches to the study of regionalisms in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Building on, but seeking to go beyond the European experience the course examines the rise of regions after World War II and the resurgence of the idea in and from the 1980s. It considers the different interpretations, values and expectations assigned to ‘region’, from regional free trade agreements to security communities to supra-national integrative projects. The course will examine how such regions vary across time and geography, assuming different characteristics, and will also consider to what extent regions are a result of and/or a response to globalization and the extent to which they constitute and shape global order. Course faculty include Amitav Acharya, American University, Washington D.C.; Matteo Fumagalli, Central European University; Youngmi Kim, Central European University; Mary Farrell, Plymouth School of Government, University of Plymouth, UK; Rick Fawn, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, UK; J. Andrew Grant, Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada The application deadline is February 14, 2014. Financial aid is available. More detailed information available at http://www.summer.ceu.hu/comparative-2014 .