Transnational Civil Society Actors and Regional Governance in the Americas: Elite Projects and Collective Action from Below

Abstract

Contemporary regionalism in the Americas constitutes a complex, multilayered arena for contestation among social forces and contending political projects. Some of these rival projects actively promote the globalization of markets, production, finance, and culture, while others attempt defensively to accommodate themselves to its seeming inexorable logic, and still others mount struggles of resistance to it.