Emerging Organizational Forms: The Proliferation of Regional Intergovernmental Organizations in the Modern World-System

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Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (REIGOs) have increased in number and importance since World War II and have assumed critical roles in both the economic and the political realms. Indeed, it is difficultif not impossibleto discuss current economic issues without referring to the European Economic Community or the North American Free Trade Area. Similiarly, political REIGOs, such as NATO, the European Council, and the Organization of American States, are aggressively working to maintain peace and stability on a global scale. In the present volume, sociologist James Hawdon offers a novel approach to understanding the proliferation of these relatively new but increasingly important actors on the world stage.

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"This engaging book analyzes conflict and cooperation on a global scale. The theoretical generality of Parsons and Blau is combined with the historical sweep of Kennedy, Mann, and McNeill to illuminate the processes behind the growth of intergovernmental organizations. The scope of Hawdon's analysis is impressive, taking in much of geopolitical history to address such fundamental issues as the nature of organizational evolution and the forces that unite and divide social actors."-Jeffery S. Mullis Department of Sociology, Wake Forest University

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JAMES HAWDON is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Clemson University.