Parliamentary Dimensions of Regionalization and Globalization

1. Introduction
Olivier Costa, Stelios Stavridis, Clarissa Dri

2. International Parliamentary Institutions: A Research Agenda
Zlatko Šabič

Part I. Supranational Parliaments

3. The Role of the European Parliament in Europe’s Integration and Parliamentarization Process
Olivier Costa, Nathalie Brack

4. The MERCOSUR Parliament: A Challenging Position between Late Institutionalization and Early Stalemate
Clarissa Dri, 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
Juan Albarrací n

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
Jü rgen Rüland

Part III. Inter-parliamentary Assemblies: The European Union’s Experience

10. Talking Shop or Relevant Actor: The ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
Sarah Delputte

11. The Origins, Structures and Functions of the Euro-Mediterranean and Euro-Latin American Inter-parliamentary Assemblies
Stelios Stavridis, Roderick Pace, Natalia Ajenjo

12. Conclusions
Olivier Costa, Stelios Stavridis, Clarissa Dri

Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, Globalization, International Organization, Comparative Politics, Political Science, International Relations, Public Policy