• Concepts of regional integration.
  
• Negative and positive integration.
  
• Natural and strategic integration.
  
• Economic and political integration.
  
• Regionalism, globalisation and world economic order.
  
• National identity and the revival of regionalism.
  
• The growth of regional organizations and the role of the United Nations.
  
• Experiences of regional integration: regional integration in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas.
  
• Regional integration vs. globalisation.
  

1. to explain the evolution of the regional integration process.
   
2. to compare diverse regional integration models.
   
3. to verify the interaction between spaces of integrating vocation.
   
4. to relate regionalisation and globalisation.
   

• FAWCETT, Louise e HURRELL, Andrew, Regionalism in World Politics: Regional Organization and International Order, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003.
• FERNANDES, A. J., União Europeia e Mercosul: Dois Processos de Integração, Braga, UM, 1998.
• KARNS, Margaret P. e MINGST, Karen A., International Organizations, The Politics and Processes of Global Governance, Boulder, CO, Lynne Rienner, 2004.
• HAYNES, Jeffrey, Comparative Politics in a Globalizing World, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2005.
• PORTO, M. C. Lopes, Teoria da Integração e Políticas Comunitárias, Coimbra, Almedina, 2001.

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