CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Urquilla, Jose |
|---|---|
| Title | Convergence or Divergence? Integration and Institutions in Europe and Central America |
| Summary | At some point or another, countries in different parts of the world have considered integration. ‘Integration’ has been pursued to different degrees and has taken on different meanings: from pure economics, to comprising political, social, and legal dimensions. The most studied case of regional integration has been the European Union. Despite the rich existing literature of theories accounting and advocating regional integration, scholars have neglected to apply them to other projects around the world. An example of this is Central America, a region where the thinking and attempts for integration have extensively developed different waves over time. Focusing on the myriad of structures and actors that have been responsible for advancing, stalling, or failing integration processes, this paper compares the Central American Common Market to the European Economic Community, given their chronological and ideational similarities. By combining elements of Neofunctionalism and Historical Institutionalism, it seeks to assess the capacity of these theories to give an alternate explanation of why, despite the regions’ integration efforts’ apparent similarities, their outcomes differed so greatly, and to draw lessons from these experiences that can help further advancement of integration theorization in general and Central American integration studies in particular. |
| Supervisor | Puetter, Uwe |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/urquilla_jose.pdf |
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