This edited volume explains the importance of regional public goods (RPGs) for sustainable development and shows why they are particularly important in the context of 21st-century international relations.

Preface

Part I Introduction

1. 21st-Century Cooperation, Regional Public Goods, and Sustainable Development

2. Regional Public Goods Cooperation: An Inductive Approach to Measuring Regional Public Goods

Part II Regional Leadership, Alliances, Networks, and Outcomes

3. Regionalism in the Evolving World Order: Power, Leadership, and the Provision of Public Goods

4. Transnational Policy Networks and Regional Public Goods in Latin America

5. Can Regional Standards Be Above the National Norm? Impact Evaluation Issues for Regional Public Goods

Part III New Frontiers in Functional Cooperation

6. Regional Public Goods: The Case of Migration

7. Connectivity and Infrastructure as 21st-Century Regional Public Goods

8. Open Borders: A Regional Public Good

9. Advancing Digitization as a Regional Public Good

10. Building Regional Environmental Governance: Northeast Asia's Unique Path to Sustainable Development

11. The Multilateral Trading System and Regional Public Goods

Part IV Old and New Regions in a Multiplex World

12. European Regional Public Goods: Insiders and Outsiders

13. Regional Public Goods in North America

14. Public Goods and Regional Organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean: Identity, Goals, and Implementation

15. Asia's Financial Stability as a Regional and Global Public Good

16. From Small Markets to Collective Action: Regional Public Goods in Africa

Antoni Estevadeordal is Manager, Integration and Trade Sector, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Louis W Goodman is Professor and Emeritus Dean, School of International Service, American University.