Olivier Costa is Senior Research Fellow at CNRS (National Center for ScientificResearch), Centre Emile Durkheim, University of Bordeaux, France. Clarissa Dri is Lecturer in the Department of Economics and International Relations, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil. Stelios Stavridis is ARAID Senior Research Fellow, Research Unit on Global Governance and the European Union, University of Zaragoza, Spain.

'Transforming disorderly globalisation in democratic global governance is a key challenge for the future of mankind. This timely research volume is a helpful tool because it does not only talk of dreams but rather accurately analyses the necessary parliamentary dimension of democratic processes at regional and global level' - Enrique Baron Crespo, Former President of the European Parliament 'Parliamentarism - the essence of democracy - faces a number of challenges in the globalizing world. Models of inter-parliamentary cooperation vary from continent to continent. A stronger post-Lisbon European Parliament - comprehensively analyzed in the first part of the volume - is one of the unique examples of efficient democratic governance. This book represents a valuable contribution to the scientific debate providing an interesting overview on different integration models across the world.' -Jerzy Buzek, Member of the European Parliament, Former President of the European Parliament, 2009-2012 and Former Prime Minister of Poland, 1997-2001 'I am frequently asked what the purpose of regional parliaments actually is. Parliamentary Dimensions of Regionalization and Globalization provides an answer to this question by highlighting the many advantages of regional parliaments as well as exploring the political challenges they face in order to be useful institutions in society' Dr. Rosinha, Former President of the Mercosur Parliament

• 1. Introduction; Olivier Costa, Stelios Savridis and Clarissa Dri 2. International Parliamentary Institutions: a Research Agenda; Zlatko Šabi? PART I: SUPRANATIONAL PARLIAMENTS 3. The Role of the European Parliament in Europe's Integration: a Critical Reassessment; Olivier Costa and Nathalie Brack 4. The MERCOSUR Parliament - A Challenging Position between Late Institutionalization and Early Stalemate; Clarissa Dri and Deisy Ventura 5. The Brazilian Parliamentary Delegation to Mercosur: its Functions in the Brazilian National Congress; Maria Claudia Drummond PART II: NON-SUPRANATIONAL REGIONAL PARLIAMENTS 6. Integration Parliaments in Latin America: the Cases of Parlandino and Parlacen; Juliana Erthal and Juan Albarracín 7. The Baltic Sea Region as a Laboratory for Inter-parliamentary 'Dialogue'; Cristina Fasone 8. African Regional Parliaments: Legislatures without Legislative Powers; M. A. Mohamed Salih 9. Participation without Democratization: The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) and ASEAN's Regional Corporatism; Jürgen Rüland PART III: INTER-PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLIES: EUROPEAN UNION'S EXPERIENCES 10. Talking Shop or Relevant Actor: The ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly; Sarah Delputte 11. The Origins, Structures and Functions of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly and of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly; Stelios Stavridis, Roderick Pace and Natalia Ajenjo 12. Conclusions; Olivier Costa, Stelios Savridis and Clarissa Dri