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Dear All,

You are kindly invited to submit a proposal and session proposal for the
upcoming *XVII AISPE Conference, **Roma Tre University, **October 3-5,
2024: **Regional Economic Integration and Multilateralism in Historical
Perspective*.*



Call for papers and session proposals is attached.

Info available at: http://www.aispe.eu/en/xiv-aispe-conference/



*Important dates:*


*31 March 2024*: deadline for submitting (paper and sessions).

Please, send abstract and session proposals to: *[log in to unmask]
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*30 April 2024*: notification of acceptance

*30 June 2024*: deadline for early bird registration

*1 September 2024*: deadline for sending full papers

*3-5 October 2024*: conference



***2024 marks the 80th anniversary of the Bretton Woods conference, where
the foundations of a new international economic and monetary order were
laid. Following the formal collapse of its regime between 1971 and 1973, a
de facto hegemony of the US dollar replaced its de jure hegemony. This
shift led to increasing global imbalances and greater vulnerability of the
world economy, attributed to what were named the Triffin dilemma and
inherent destabilizers that characterize each international monetary system
(IMS) relying on a national currency to provide global liquidity.

Since China's economic rise, the US-led financial crisis, and the UN
Stiglitz Commission in 2009, calls for multilateralism and a new, more
equitable global economic governance have become pressing. The most
relevant feature of the present global economy is interdependence. Despite
attempts at fragmentation through the shortening of global value chains
(with reshoring and friend shoring) and attempts to fence off negative
transnational externalities (even with autarchic and neocolonial
responses), there is an increasing need for supranational public goods (or
reducing negative public bads).

Hence, there is a growing renewed interest in regional integrations as
optimum policy areas to compromise between import substitution and market
openness, attempting to govern unavoidable economic and monetary
interdependencies. Furthermore, given the continental dimension of most
actors now playing in the global arena, regional integration will
increasingly be a key topic in the forthcoming future, as a key to restore
a path to global multilateralization.

Inquiring into past experiences and understanding of regional integration
in different areas of the world is key to designing regional experiments
that may avoid failures and major shortcomings negatively impacting the
return to multilateralism. How did Asian countries rationalize regional
integration? How do African experiments in trade and monetary integration
reflect a genuine attempt to overcome fragmentation, and to what extent are
they born out of neocolonial ambitions? What about Latin Americans and
their reiterated proposals for a common regional currency? Does any
specific model of regional economic and monetary integration exist in
specific regions of the world? Or do they all take for granted that, sooner
or later, the path followed by the EU is to be replicated elsewhere? What
lessons can be learned from European integration? How did the EU and non-EU
regions make sense of the relationship between regional integration and
global integration? How does this understanding evolve over time, and what
major watersheds can be highlighted in different regions? What was the
relative role of events and economic theories in shaping different
understandings and policymaking connected to regional integration? How does
regional integration respond (only, or mainly) to economic theorizing
and/or reflect a complex set of features that require an interdisciplinary
knowledge of history?

Alongside these — and further — questions, a whole set of research projects
can be pursued and papers presented that reconstruct both the historical
dimension and the comparative features of different models for interpreting
regional trade, economic, and monetary integration, and their relationship
with multilateralism

The conference serves as a platform for discussions on the overarching
theme of models for regional integration and multilayered governance.
However, it is also open to paper presentations on broader topics related
to the history of economic thought.



*Scientific Committee *

Pier Francesco Asso (University of Palermo)

Giandomenica Becchio (University of Torino)

Fabrizio Bientinesi (University of Pisa)

Marco Guidi (University of Pisa)

Ivo Maes (Catholic University of Louven-la Neuve)

Antonio Magliulo (University of Florence)

Fabio Masini, Chair (Roma Tre University)

Manuela Mosca (University of Salento)

Sebastiano Nerozzi (Catholic University of Milan)

Gianfranco Tusset (University of Padova)



*Organizing Committee *

Francesca Berti, Tommaso Conti, Fabio Masini, Albertina Nania, Veronica
Sacco



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Giandomenica Becchio
Department of Economics, Social Sciences, Mathematics, and Statistics
(ESOMAS)
University of Torino
Corso Unione Sovietica 218bis
10134 Torino
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