Natalie J. Doyle is senior lecturer in French and European studies at Monash University and deputy director of the Monash European and European Union Centre.Lorenza Sebesta, historian, is Jean Monnet professor ad personam at the campus of the University of Bologna in Buenos Aires.

• Chapter 1: Interwar plans for European economic integration: an overviewPierre Tilly and Michel Dumoulin Chapter 2: International municipalism between the wars: local government as modernizing actors Mariana Luna Pont Chapter 3: Talcott Parsons, Carl J. Friedrich and the conceptualization of regional integration Flora AndersonChapter 4: Theories of modernization in Latin AmericaJosé Paradiso Chapter 5: Alexandre Kojève and the re-invention of modernity: the European Communities as the “End of History” Lorenza SebestaChapter 6: Judicial globalization: the dialogue between the Inter-American and European Courts of Human Rights Beatriz LarrainChapter 7: Agencies to modernize integration? The European Union and Mercosur as case studiesSandra NegroChapter 8: Government-industry relations in Argentina: trade decisions in MercosurLuciana Gil Chapter 9: Multinational companies and the peripheral automotive spacein MercosurMartin ObayaChapter 10: The de-politicizing logic of European economic integrationNatalie Doyle

The book, Regional Integration and Modernity: Cross-Atlantic Perspectives, provides a new and deeply knowledgeable analysis of the integration processes in Europe and Latin America in the context of modernity. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, including new regionalism theory, that supports the contention that regional integration is a socially constructed phenomenon. The book is, therefore, a valuable contribution to comparative regional integration studies.

Natalie J. Doyle is senior lecturer in French and European studies at Monash University and deputy director of the Monash European and European Union Centre.Lorenza Sebesta, historian, is Jean Monnet professor ad personam at the campus of the University of Bologna in Buenos Aires.

• Chapter 1: Interwar plans for European economic integration: an overviewPierre Tilly and Michel Dumoulin Chapter 2: International municipalism between the wars: local government as modernizing actors Mariana Luna Pont Chapter 3: Talcott Parsons, Carl J. Friedrich and the conceptualization of regional integration Flora AndersonChapter 4: Theories of modernization in Latin AmericaJosé Paradiso Chapter 5: Alexandre Kojève and the re-invention of modernity: the European Communities as the “End of History” Lorenza SebestaChapter 6: Judicial globalization: the dialogue between the Inter-American and European Courts of Human Rights Beatriz LarrainChapter 7: Agencies to modernize integration? The European Union and Mercosur as case studiesSandra NegroChapter 8: Government-industry relations in Argentina: trade decisions in MercosurLuciana Gil Chapter 9: Multinational companies and the peripheral automotive spacein MercosurMartin ObayaChapter 10: The de-politicizing logic of European economic integrationNatalie Doyle

The book, Regional Integration and Modernity: Cross-Atlantic Perspectives, provides a new and deeply knowledgeable analysis of the integration processes in Europe and Latin America in the context of modernity. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, including new regionalism theory, that supports the contention that regional integration is a socially constructed phenomenon. The book is, therefore, a valuable contribution to comparative regional integration studies.

Natalie J. Doyle is senior lecturer in French and European studies at Monash University and deputy director of the Monash European and European Union Centre.Lorenza Sebesta, historian, is Jean Monnet professor ad personam at the campus of the University of Bologna in Buenos Aires.

• Chapter 1: Interwar plans for European economic integration: an overviewPierre Tilly and Michel Dumoulin Chapter 2: International municipalism between the wars: local government as modernizing actors Mariana Luna Pont Chapter 3: Talcott Parsons, Carl J. Friedrich and the conceptualization of regional integration Flora AndersonChapter 4: Theories of modernization in Latin AmericaJosé Paradiso Chapter 5: Alexandre Kojève and the re-invention of modernity: the European Communities as the “End of History” Lorenza SebestaChapter 6: Judicial globalization: the dialogue between the Inter-American and European Courts of Human Rights Beatriz LarrainChapter 7: Agencies to modernize integration? The European Union and Mercosur as case studiesSandra NegroChapter 8: Government-industry relations in Argentina: trade decisions in MercosurLuciana Gil Chapter 9: Multinational companies and the peripheral automotive spacein MercosurMartin ObayaChapter 10: The de-politicizing logic of European economic integrationNatalie Doyle

The book, Regional Integration and Modernity: Cross-Atlantic Perspectives, provides a new and deeply knowledgeable analysis of the integration processes in Europe and Latin America in the context of modernity. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, including new regionalism theory, that supports the contention that regional integration is a socially constructed phenomenon. The book is, therefore, a valuable contribution to comparative regional integration studies.