Regional Integration and Social Cohesion: Perspectives from the Developing World

The book under review is a collection of chapters that examine the conception of social cohesion, its prevalence at regional and national levels in Africa and Latin America, and how it operates at domestic level in African and Southeast Asian countries. Accordingly, following the two introductory chapters it comprises nine chapters divided into three parts that examine the conceptual aspects of social cohesion at a regional level, the challenges and prospects of social cohesion in, respectively, African and Latin American regional integration, and the construction of social cohesion in South Africa and Vietnam.