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Editorial Introduction (Special Issue on The Social Policy Dimensions of World-Regionalism)
[journal article]
Abstract The regionalist strategies of states, businesses, non-governmental organizations
(NGOs) and social movements are key to understanding the complex
relationship between contemporary globalization and social policy processes.
In bringing together a range of contributions focused on the social politics
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The regionalist strategies of states, businesses, non-governmental organizations
(NGOs) and social movements are key to understanding the complex
relationship between contemporary globalization and social policy processes.
In bringing together a range of contributions focused on the social politics
and policies of world-regional integration processes, this special issue of
Global Social Policy has two major aims. First, it seeks to advance a wider appreciation
of the significance of regionalist and regionalization processes in the
making of global social governance and policy. Second, it begins to address
the substantial gap in the scholarly and policy literatures on regionalisms that
privilege issues of trade, diplomacy and 'security' to the neglect of welfare.
This collection shows that there is a tangible social policy dimension to several
regional groupings and that questions of trade and 'security' policy are in
practice entangled in wider social policy issues concerning the resources that
people have access to and control over and how certain social groups and
entire populations are treated.... view less
Classification
Social Policy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2007
Page/Pages
p. 251-252
Journal
Global Social Policy, 7 (2007) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1468018107082232
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)