Fostering Regional Regulative Integration

Lessons Across Regions” Second Workshop on Regional Integration Mechanisms and Development /IDB (Inter-American Development Bank) - EUI-GGP Joint Project/Washington, 2012, 24-25 February

The Washington workshop continues the dialogue started at the first meeting in Florence with a focus on three inter-related questions:

 What are the key differences in the strategies and developmental effects of regulative integration among diverse regional arrangements (e.g., NAFTA, Mercosur, Cafta, EU Accession and neighborhood policy, etc.) and what lessons can be learned from previous experiences?

 What are the different top down and bottom up mechanisms of transnational rule making, how can they help or hinder regional regulative integration, and what are their combinatorial effects on domestic institutional development?

 What are the domestic factors that could help or hinder the introduction and consolidation of regulative institutions – for both deepening economic integration and broadening the range of domestic participants?

Participants

The workshop will bring together a core group of 14 scholars doing research in the aforementioned fields with LAC practitioners to promote the coming about of durable policy network that can regularly cross-fertilize research and policymaking.