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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Inter-regionalism as a Mechanism for the Harmonization of Africa's Regional Integration Projects -- Introduction -- Inter-regionalism: A New Dimension of Global Governance -- Systemic Functions of Inter-regionalism -- 'Multiple Regionalisms' in Africa: A Challenge to the Creation of African Economic Community (AEC) -- Inter-regionalism: A Mechanism for Resolving Multiple Regionalisms in Africa -- Conclusion -- References -- 2. Regional Development Poles and Self-sustaining Development in Africa -- Introduction -- Industrialization Policy in Africa -- Need for Large Political Units -- Regional Development Poles -- Some Examples of Regional Development Poles -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 3. Interrogating Regional Security Arrangementsin Africa: The Case of the African Peace and Security Architecture -- Components of APSA -- Role of Partners -- Conclusion -- References -- 4. Regional Financial Integration: Evidence from Stock Markets in the West African Monetary Zone -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Research Methodology -- Results and Discussions -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- 5. Gender Dimensions of Informal Cross-border Trade in the West African Sub-region (ECOWAS) Borders -- Introduction -- Brief Literature Review and Theoretical Framework -- Rational Choice Theory -- Method of Data Collection -- Results and Critical Discussions -- Summary and Conclusion -- Recommendations -- References -- 6. Regional Networking and Identity Integration in West Africa: Case Study of Ejigbo-Yorubain Cote d'Ivoire -- Introduction -- Objectives of Study -- Study's Methodology -- Historical Constructs of Social Network and Migration System in West Africa -- Cross-border Interaction and Migration in West Africa.

In her sixty years on earth, Gene Stratton-Porter was many things: a women's club organizer, nature photographer, naturalist, conservationist, best-selling novelist, and a burgeoning film producer who died just as her film studio began to realize her mission of adapting her novels into movies that could further her education and conservation efforts. By 1960, eight of her books had been turned into twenty-one films—silent and sound, black and white and color, from Poverty Row studios to members of the Big Five. This article examines how Stratton-Porter and others translated her regionalism and conservationism to film across a span of forty-three years that saw major revolutions in Hollywood filmmaking. The Hollywood studio system, I argue, appropriated her successful brand of regionalism and her audience of women's club members, while also augmenting her problematically genteel mode of activism.

AFRICAN LEADERS HAVE COMMITTED THEMSELVES TO DEMOCRATIZATION AND SPEEDY RESOLUTION OF CONFLICTS ON THE CONTINENT. IN THIS CONTEXT, OAU WILL NEED TO FIND THE MEANS OF ARBITRATING AND ASSISTING WHEN TRANSITION PROBLEMS ARISE. AFRICA NEEDS A NEW APPROACH TO CONFLICT RESOLUTION, CONSOLIDATING THE CREEPING EROSION OF THE SANCTITY OF SOVEREIGNTY. CONSIDERATION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE CREATION OF AN OAU COUNCIL FOR PEACE AND SECURITY.

This paper aims to elaborate the new circumstances of South East Asia and its impact to form of cooperation and architecture of ASEAN. Despite the ASEAN countries still maintain the state-led regionalism principle, but various changes that took place in this region has risen a various issues that push the emergence of new actors such as seen in the emergence of transnational advocacy netwoks. The limitations of the state-centric regionalism leave the problem of representation. This means that the state perspective will be more determined by political and technocratic calculations. By proposing multitrack regionalism concept, this paper try to show that state-led regionalism is needed to transform into community-led regionalism in order to realize a more democratic regionalism.

A new regionalism, when compared to the context of the economic & social regionalization movements of the 1960s & 1970s, evolved qualitatively as a result of the development of European integration induced by the Single European Act in the mid-1980s. Since then, Western Europe has experienced enhanced supranationalism, regionalism, & globalization, which has changed the perception of the regions allowing the development of factors making for a new regionalism: the erosion of the national authority's role due to economic & globalization forces; the region as an actor of development & as a lobbyist at different levels; the influence of the supranational structural policies; the growth of regional consciousness; the influence of cross-border cooperation & paradiplomatic activities. West Sweden is an interesting case on how this new regionalism has developed. 73 References. Adapted from the source document.

Kulturkonzepte sehen sich in der inter- und kulturvergleichenden Forschung zunehmend der Kritik ausgesetzt. In der Folge haben sich neue Konzepte etabliert, die auf eine Entgrenzung, Entessentialisierung, Hybridisierung und Fuzzyisierung von Kultur verweisen. Darunter befinden sich Konzepte wie das der dialektischen Perspektivenbildung, der sozialen Imaginationen (social imaginaries) und der Praxistheorie, Konzepte, die als Lösungsansätze für das immanente Theorie-Praxis Dilemma in der (inter)kulturellen Forschung und Trainingspraxis gesehen werden. Dieser Beitrag will einen Referenzrahmen für neue theoretische Ansätze bieten und zum Nachdenken über neue experimentelle Trainingsdesigns anregen.