Regionalization and Global Governance: The Taming of Globalization? – Edited by A.F. Cooper, C.W. Hughes and P. De Lombaerde
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Regionalization and Global Governance: The Taming of Globalization? edited by A.F. Cooper, C.W. Hughes and P. De Lombaerde ( London : Routledge , 2007 , ISBN 9780415453776 ); xvi + 269 pp. , £22.99 pb . As indicated in the title, the overriding question in this book is whether regionalization can tame globalization and provide governance in the global system. Although this is not the first book dealing with this central question, this volume represents a very useful addition to the literature and is essential reading for both scholars and students interested in the complex relationship between global governance and regionalization. The book is a result of a joint conference held in October 2005, in which the three main institutions involved, the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization (CSGR), University of Warwick, UK, the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Waterloo, Canada and the United Nations University-Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Bruges, Belgium, share the challenge of editing. The introduction written by the three editors is followed by 12 chapters that are divided in four parts. Collectively, 17 scholars are involved in describing the theoretical debates, the economic dimensions, the security considerations and the governing structures pertaining to the relationship between global governance and regionalization. The book is rather even in content and quality for an edited volume and it reads well. However, the introduction and the first four theoretical chapters (Part I) are particularly clear and informative. These chapters do not only provide a succinct general picture and a point of departure for the substantive chapters; they are innovative because they direct the attention to topics largely neglected in the established regionalization and global governance literature (e.g. the role of civil society and social movements), and because they challenge established paradigms and understandings in an original manner (e.g. the ‘old’ versus ‘new’ regionalism divide, the split between the European integration theorists and the international relations/international political economy/comparative regionalism scholars). Most chapters connect well with these introductory theoretical debates. The exception here is the chapter on the regional multinationals and the myth of globalization, which although fascinating, does not fit well in tone and content with the rest of the book. The first sentence of the book warns the readers that ‘the relationship between global governance and regionalization is fraught with ambiguity’. This book justifies this warning by illustrating and discussing the various sources of this ambiguity, and facilitates dialogue and prepares the ground for further and more refined analyses.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".