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Please forward this Call for Papers to interested colleagues Call for Papers for a panel Do Regional Integration Processes Matter? Comparing European, American and Asian Experiences in the framework of the SASE Research Network "Markets and Institutions" at the Conference “Work and Labor in the Global Economy” of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE, www.sase.org) at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, June 27 - June 30, 2002 This panel is aimed at revitalizing the tradition of comparative regional integration studies. Regional integration processes are usually topics of research within specialized regionally oriented networks of scholars. Until the mid-1970s, however, there was a vivid practice of comparative analyses of regional integration, as part of the neofunctionalist research program. Recently there has been renewed interest in the debate on a general theory of regional integration, caused by the proliferation of these phenomena in all world regions and inspired by new theories of international relations, international political economy and world systems-research. The role of regional integration processes in the world-system is often too narrowly analyzed in terms of economic aggregates or reduced to participation in international negotiations. This omits the fact that global competition is also intrinsically a form of competition between socio-economic trajectories and specific institutional patterns. What is the role of regional integration processes in this competition? Are they just elements of a global process of competitive economic liberalization, or do they shape economic and social processes in the countries involved decisively? If you are interested, please send an e-mail to [log in to unmask] soon. The deadline for submitting proposals to SASE is Dec., 15. Patrick Ziltener Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Paulstrasse 3, D - 50676 Koeln, Germany Tel. 0049 (0)221-2767 162 Fax 0049 (0)221-2767 555 e-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de -- Gabor VARNAI PARDES Urban Policy Research and Consulting Office; Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Felsoerdosor 12. Budapest, Hungary, H-1068 tel/fax: +36-1-3515465; mobile phone: +36-30-2219452 e-mail: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]