RICHARD FEINBERG Professor of International Political Economy, University of California, San Diego, USAANDREW HURRELL Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University, UKIGNACIO LABAQUI Assistant Professor of Latin American Politics, Universidad Catolica, Argentina ROBERTO KORZENIEWICZ Ford Foundation, USANEIL S. MACFARLANE Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford, UKDAVID PION-BERLIN University of California, USALORENA RUANO Research Professor, CIDE, MexicoWILLIAM C. SMITH Professor of Political Science, University of Miami, USABLANCA TORRES Research Professor, El Colegio de Mexico, MexicoDIANA TUSSIE Director of the Research Programme on International Economic Institutions, FLACSO, ArgentinaGUSTAVO VEGA-CANOVAS Professor, El Colegio de Mexico, MexicoLAURENCE WHITEHEAD Fellow in Politics, Nuffield College, Oxford

• List of Tables Notes on Contributors Preface: Contextualizing US-Latin American Relations; R.Feinberg Introduction; L.Fawcett & M.Serrano Regionalism and Governance: A Critique; M.Serrano PART I: CONTINENTAL REGIONALISMS The Origins and Development of the Regional Idea in the Americas; L.Fawcett The European Union and Regional Integration in the Americas; L.Ruano PART II: FROM FREE TRADE TO ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE IN THE AMERICAS The Free Trade Area of the Americas: The Hunt for the Hemispheric Grand Bargain; D.Tussie & I.Labaqui Regional Governance: The Case of Dispute Settlement in NAFTA; G.Vega-Cánovas PART III: THE POLITICS OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY OPPOSITION Transnational Actors and NAFTA: The Search for Coalitions on Labour and the Environment; B.Torres Transnational Civil Society Actors and Regional Governance in the Americas: Elite Projects and Collective Action from Below; R.P.Korzeniewicz & W.C.Smith PART IV: DEMOCRACY AND HEGEMONY: THE GOVERNANCE OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE Democratisation and Human Rights in the Americas: Should the Jury Still be Out?; L.Whitehead Hegemony and Regional Governance in the Americas; A.Hurrell PART V: REGIONAL GOVERNANCE AND THE SECURITY OF THE AMERICAS Sub-Regional Cooperation, Hemispheric Threat: Security in the Southern Cone; D.Pion-Berlin Security Regulation or Community? Canada, Mexico and the Borders of Identity; N.S.MacFarlane & M.Serrano Conclusion: The Americas and Regional Disintegration; M.Serrano Index