Parliamentary Dimensions of Regionalization and Globalization

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