Chapter 1: Interwar plans for European economic integration: an overview Pierre Tilly and Michel Dumoulin Chapter 2: International municipalism between the wars: local government as modernizing actors Mariana Luna Pont Chapter 3: Talcott Parsons, Carl J. Friedrich and the conceptualization of regional integration Flora Anderson Chapter 4: Theories of modernization in Latin America Jose Paradiso Chapter 5: Alexandre Kojeve and the re-invention of modernity: the European Communities as the "End of History" Lorenza Sebesta Chapter 6: Judicial globalization: the dialogue between the Inter-American and European Courts of Human Rights Beatriz Larrain Chapter 7: Agencies to modernize integration? The European Union and Mercosur as case studies Sandra Negro Chapter 8: Government-industry relations in Argentina: trade decisions in Mercosur Luciana Gil Chapter 9: Multinational companies and the peripheral automotive space in Mercosur Martin Obaya Chapter 10: The de-politicizing logic of European economic integration Natalie Doyle