Call for papers: The Financial Crises in comparative regional perspective: Can Europe Learn from other Regions?

Call for Papers for International Conference:
*The Financial Crises in comparative regional perspective:
Can Europe Learn from other Regions? *
Research College (Kolleg-Forschergruppe, KFG) “The Transformative Power of
Europe”,
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, 23-24 November 2012

The European financial crisis, the Asian crisis in 1997 and the Latin
American crisis in 1982 are all regional phenomena. Due to political,
economic and financial regional interdependencies of private and sovereign
financial institutions, the crises spread within the regions. The responses
to the crises required a regional and transnational coordinated response. The
workshop seeks to explore the factors that shaped the different regional
responses to the crises with an emphasis on regional architectural designs,
historical paths, regional ideational legacies, inter-regional social
learning and diffusion of ideas.

The workshop will address three sets of questions:
First, on the descriptive level, how did actors—local, regional and
international—frame each of the three crises? What types of bodies of
knowledge were used to frame them? What kinds of “solutions” were
considered, and how were they legitimized?

Second, on the causal level, how can we explain the differences between the
responses to the three crises? Can liberal, realist and functional theories
provide sufficient explanations? What was the role of regional path
dependencies? Can we identify regional policy legacies that shaped the
responses?

Finally, what are the likely effects of a crisis on the region’s future
institutional path and architecture?

The workshop seeks to contribute to the literature of comparative
regionalism, EU studies, social learning literature, epistemic communities
and IPE.

We invite paper proposals on any topic or period which address these
questions. All papers must be based on original research. Paper proposals
must include the name of the paper-giver, a short CV and a paper abstract of
no more than 250 words. The deadline for the submission of paper proposals is
31 May 2012. Paper proposals have to be sent to
ariekrampf @ zedat.fu-berlin.de.

Successful applicants will be informed on or shortly after 10 July 2012.
Papers should be sent by October 30 2012. The KFG “The Transformative Power
of Europe” will cover the overnight accommodation in Berlin and reasonable
travel costs.

Dr. Arie Krampf, Postdoc Fellow
Kolleg-Forschergruppe “The Transformative Power of Europe”
The Freie Universität
Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science
ariekrampf @ zedat.fu-berlin.de

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