Gaspare M Genna
Biographic Data
| ID | 1598322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gaspare M Genna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gaspare M |
| FAMILY NAME | Genna |
| SIGNATURE | GENNA G M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at El Paso |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1228-5301 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Brexit exposed
Uncooperative leadership
Some research indicates that regional integration is more likely when power asymmetry exists among neighbouring states. Theoretically, preponderant powers can act as regional leaders because they can promote the development of collective goods that will entice others into partnerships. Other scholars argue that power asymmetry is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for integration. The preponderant power is to be willing to lead efforts. We…
Safeguarding the promise of integration
We posit that having an economically preponderant member state in a regional integration organization (RIO) helps prevent and defeat coups within member states, particularly in organizations with no formal prohibition against irregular government change. The economic promises of integration require political stability between and within member states. Previous research demonstrates that economically preponderant states, acting as regional leaders…
When States Regionally Integrate
This study compares two articles that seek to explain why states participate in regional integration organizations and why they want to deepen their economic and political partnerships. The method of comparison is the systemist diagrammatic approach, which requires a deconstruction and mapping of ideas found in social science. The articles demonstrate common variables in their explanations, namely that power asymmetry and satisfaction with the st…
A Pathway for Regional Integration
This article seeks to explain levels of regional integration worldwide. The level of regional integration increases as the economic strength of the regional leader increases under higher levels of satisfaction among partners. The homogenization of domestic institutions also increases under these conditions. Finally, there is a reciprocal effect between integration and the homogenization of domestic institutions. Integration therefore cannot be ex…
Public perceptions of the European power hierarchy and support for a single European security and defense policy
Many studies focus on overall support for European integration while less work has been done on explaining public opinion on specific policy areas, such as security and defense policy. We hypothesize that the probability of supporting a single European security and defense policy increases with greater levels of trust in the European Union member states, most notably the more powerful members such as Germany. This variable is critical since integ…
Rising Powers and Foreign Policy Revisionism
This project contributes to the extensive analysis regarding the consequences of emerging powers by focusing on the roles that Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) play regionally and globally. The authors do so by comparing theoretical approaches and then conducting mixed-methods testing to examine whether the BRICS thus far have displayed conflictual behavior (military and economic). The book is rich in both theoretical develo…
The Unexpected Effects of Criminal Violence along the Mexico-Texas Border
The violence and insecurity that Mexico suffered during former President Calderon’s war on the Mexican drug cartels have come at a grave economic cost to many cities. The criminal violence had an impact on interdependent borderlands, which are geographic areas that have a symbiotic link between cities and communities of adjoining territories. Mexican business people and consumers that live in cities along the shared border with the United States …
Images of Europeans
North American Integration
This article evaluates the role civil society organizations play in helping noncitizen migrant workers access to social rights in Canada. The study focuses on the bilateral Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, a temporary worker scheme that brings Mexicans to Canada to work as harvesters for a four‐to‐eight‐month period. Despite the common description of this program as “best practice,” questions are raised about the ability of workers…
The European Commission and Bureaucratic Autonomy
Journal Article The European Commission and Bureaucratic Autonomy: Europe's Custodians Get access The European Commission and Bureaucratic Autonomy: Europe's Custodians by Antonis A. Ellinas and Ezra Suleiman. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2012. 250 pp. $99.00. Gaspare M. Genna Gaspare M. Genna The University of Texas at El Paso Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 12…
Europe United
Beyond Borders
Does North America Have the Right Stuff? An Analysis of Compatibility and the Potential Deepening of North American Integration
This article assesses the current and future levels of North American integration. Econometric models that compare integration around the world indicate that integration deepens when countries have similar domestic, political, and economic institutions, and are economically asymmetrical. It is theorized that similar domestic institutions reduce transaction costs and uncertainty of success for firms while economic asymmetry provides incentives for…
Economic size and the changing international political economy of trade
The Small N Methodological Challenges of Analyzing Regional Integration
As the number of regional integration organizations increases, the attention to case selection in small‐N qualitative analysis becomes more necessary in order to avoid selection biases that could produce results with doubtful generalizations. This paper addresses the problem of selecting cases and offers solutions to potential pitfalls in research. First we examine various research designs in qualitative methods and discuss the problems of select…
Whose Ideas Matter? Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism by Amitav Acharya
Journal Article Whose Ideas Matter? Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism by Amitav Acharya Get access Whose Ideas Matter? Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism by Amitav Acharya. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2009. 189 pp. $39.95. Gaspare M. Genna Gaspare M. Genna The University of Texas at El Paso Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 125, Issue 3, Fall 2010, Pages 5…
Positive country images, trust and public support for European integration
Intimate Ties, Bitter Struggles
Brazilian Regional Power in the Development of Mercosul
President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's government presided over three critical junctures in the development of the Common Market of the South (Mercosul): the attempted military coup in Paraguay in 1996, the devaluation of the Brazilian real in 1999, and the Argentine economic crisis in 2002. Its responses to these events were critical to the development of Mercosul because of Brazil's unique position as the largest country in the bloc. Many theori…
The Effects of Unequal Size
We argue that successful economic integration requires a regionally preponderant country that acts as a provider of goods. However, when a large member acts in a costly unilateral manner, regional integration suffers because of the asymmetric effects on smaller members. In contrast, when smaller members act in a costly unilateral manner, the preponderant power is likely to absorb costs. We propose to test these hypotheses by using the case of the…
Power Preponderance and Domestic Politics
This article addresses the domestic and international conditions that influence regional integration. The national political elite is assumed to be opportunistic and will opt for regional integration when the domestic and international conditions provide economic gains for their constituencies through greater economic integration. The hypotheses state that increases in regional integration in Latin America and the Caribbean (ANCOM, CACM/SICA, CAR…
Regional integration and domestic institutional homogeneity
This work argues that the formation of an economic union requires that the homogeneity of domestic economic institutions and the process of regional integration reinforce each other. Granger causality tests on four cases of regional integration in the Americas, Asia and Europe (1975 through 1995) confirm our thesis. These cases include the Andean Pact, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Central American Common Market and the European…
From War to Integration
Generalizing the dynamics implied by power transition theory, we characterize the structural conditions that lead nations to initiate conflict or choose to integrate. The relationship between changes in relative power, hierarchical structures, and joint satisfaction are used to identify the structural conditions for conflict and cooperation. Empirical tests for the last two centuries confirm the strength and robustness of this characterization. I…
Structural Conditions and the Propensity for Regional Integration
This paper proposes a theory for regional integration based on structural conditions. By applying power transition theory, we are able to account for and anticipate not only the tendency for pairs of countries to participate in integration, but the likely intensity of such integration as well. We find that integration is most likely when there is an asymmetric distribution of power between countries and when they are jointly satisfied after a pow…
From War to Integration
Generalizing the dynamics implied by power transition theory, we characterize the structural conditions that lead nations to initiate conflict or choose to integrate. The relationship between changes in relative power, hierarchical structures, and joint satisfaction are used to identify the structural conditions for conflict and cooperation. Empirical tests for the last two centuries confirm the strength and robustness of this characterization. I…
Structural Conditions and the Propensity for Regional Integration
This paper proposes a theory for regional integration based on structural conditions. By applying power transition theory, we are able to account for and anticipate not only the tendency for pairs of countries to participate in integration, but the likely intensity of such integration as well. We find that integration is most likely when there is an asymmetric distribution of power between countries and when they are jointly satisfied after a pow…
Power Preponderance and Domestic Politics
This article addresses the domestic and international conditions that influence regional integration. The national political elite is assumed to be opportunistic and will opt for regional integration when the domestic and international conditions provide economic gains for their constituencies through greater economic integration. The hypotheses state that increases in regional integration in Latin America and the Caribbean (ANCOM, CACM/SICA, CAR…
Regional integration and domestic institutional homogeneity
This work argues that the formation of an economic union requires that the homogeneity of domestic economic institutions and the process of regional integration reinforce each other. Granger causality tests on four cases of regional integration in the Americas, Asia and Europe (1975 through 1995) confirm our thesis. These cases include the Andean Pact, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Central American Common Market and the European…
The Small N Methodological Challenges of Analyzing Regional Integration
As the number of regional integration organizations increases, the attention to case selection in small‐N qualitative analysis becomes more necessary in order to avoid selection biases that could produce results with doubtful generalizations. This paper addresses the problem of selecting cases and offers solutions to potential pitfalls in research. First we examine various research designs in qualitative methods and discuss the problems of select…
Positive country images, trust and public support for European integration
The European Commission and Bureaucratic Autonomy
Journal Article The European Commission and Bureaucratic Autonomy: Europe's Custodians Get access The European Commission and Bureaucratic Autonomy: Europe's Custodians by Antonis A. Ellinas and Ezra Suleiman. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2012. 250 pp. $99.00. Gaspare M. Genna Gaspare M. Genna The University of Texas at El Paso Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 12…
Economic size and the changing international political economy of trade
Images of Europeans
Brazilian Regional Power in the Development of Mercosul
President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's government presided over three critical junctures in the development of the Common Market of the South (Mercosul): the attempted military coup in Paraguay in 1996, the devaluation of the Brazilian real in 1999, and the Argentine economic crisis in 2002. Its responses to these events were critical to the development of Mercosul because of Brazil's unique position as the largest country in the bloc. Many theori…
Safeguarding the promise of integration
We posit that having an economically preponderant member state in a regional integration organization (RIO) helps prevent and defeat coups within member states, particularly in organizations with no formal prohibition against irregular government change. The economic promises of integration require political stability between and within member states. Previous research demonstrates that economically preponderant states, acting as regional leaders…
Public perceptions of the European power hierarchy and support for a single European security and defense policy
Many studies focus on overall support for European integration while less work has been done on explaining public opinion on specific policy areas, such as security and defense policy. We hypothesize that the probability of supporting a single European security and defense policy increases with greater levels of trust in the European Union member states, most notably the more powerful members such as Germany. This variable is critical since integ…
Rising Powers and Foreign Policy Revisionism
This project contributes to the extensive analysis regarding the consequences of emerging powers by focusing on the roles that Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) play regionally and globally. The authors do so by comparing theoretical approaches and then conducting mixed-methods testing to examine whether the BRICS thus far have displayed conflictual behavior (military and economic). The book is rich in both theoretical develo…
The Unexpected Effects of Criminal Violence along the Mexico-Texas Border
The violence and insecurity that Mexico suffered during former President Calderon’s war on the Mexican drug cartels have come at a grave economic cost to many cities. The criminal violence had an impact on interdependent borderlands, which are geographic areas that have a symbiotic link between cities and communities of adjoining territories. Mexican business people and consumers that live in cities along the shared border with the United States …
Does North America Have the Right Stuff? An Analysis of Compatibility and the Potential Deepening of North American Integration
This article assesses the current and future levels of North American integration. Econometric models that compare integration around the world indicate that integration deepens when countries have similar domestic, political, and economic institutions, and are economically asymmetrical. It is theorized that similar domestic institutions reduce transaction costs and uncertainty of success for firms while economic asymmetry provides incentives for…
Structural Conditions and the Propensity for Regional Integration
This paper proposes a theory for regional integration based on structural conditions. By applying power transition theory, we are able to account for and anticipate not only the tendency for pairs of countries to participate in integration, but the likely intensity of such integration as well. We find that integration is most likely when there is an asymmetric distribution of power between countries and when they are jointly satisfied after a pow…
Regional integration and domestic institutional homogeneity
This work argues that the formation of an economic union requires that the homogeneity of domestic economic institutions and the process of regional integration reinforce each other. Granger causality tests on four cases of regional integration in the Americas, Asia and Europe (1975 through 1995) confirm our thesis. These cases include the Andean Pact, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Central American Common Market and the European…
From War to Integration
Generalizing the dynamics implied by power transition theory, we characterize the structural conditions that lead nations to initiate conflict or choose to integrate. The relationship between changes in relative power, hierarchical structures, and joint satisfaction are used to identify the structural conditions for conflict and cooperation. Empirical tests for the last two centuries confirm the strength and robustness of this characterization. I…
Power Preponderance and Domestic Politics
This article addresses the domestic and international conditions that influence regional integration. The national political elite is assumed to be opportunistic and will opt for regional integration when the domestic and international conditions provide economic gains for their constituencies through greater economic integration. The hypotheses state that increases in regional integration in Latin America and the Caribbean (ANCOM, CACM/SICA, CAR…
The Effects of Unequal Size
We argue that successful economic integration requires a regionally preponderant country that acts as a provider of goods. However, when a large member acts in a costly unilateral manner, regional integration suffers because of the asymmetric effects on smaller members. In contrast, when smaller members act in a costly unilateral manner, the preponderant power is likely to absorb costs. We propose to test these hypotheses by using the case of the…
Intimate Ties, Bitter Struggles
Brazilian Regional Power in the Development of Mercosul
President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's government presided over three critical junctures in the development of the Common Market of the South (Mercosul): the attempted military coup in Paraguay in 1996, the devaluation of the Brazilian real in 1999, and the Argentine economic crisis in 2002. Its responses to these events were critical to the development of Mercosul because of Brazil's unique position as the largest country in the bloc. Many theori…
Positive country images, trust and public support for European integration
Economic size and the changing international political economy of trade
The Small N Methodological Challenges of Analyzing Regional Integration
As the number of regional integration organizations increases, the attention to case selection in small‐N qualitative analysis becomes more necessary in order to avoid selection biases that could produce results with doubtful generalizations. This paper addresses the problem of selecting cases and offers solutions to potential pitfalls in research. First we examine various research designs in qualitative methods and discuss the problems of select…
Whose Ideas Matter? Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism by Amitav Acharya
Journal Article Whose Ideas Matter? Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism by Amitav Acharya Get access Whose Ideas Matter? Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism by Amitav Acharya. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2009. 189 pp. $39.95. Gaspare M. Genna Gaspare M. Genna The University of Texas at El Paso Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 125, Issue 3, Fall 2010, Pages 5…
Beyond Borders
Does North America Have the Right Stuff? An Analysis of Compatibility and the Potential Deepening of North American Integration
This article assesses the current and future levels of North American integration. Econometric models that compare integration around the world indicate that integration deepens when countries have similar domestic, political, and economic institutions, and are economically asymmetrical. It is theorized that similar domestic institutions reduce transaction costs and uncertainty of success for firms while economic asymmetry provides incentives for…
Europe United
North American Integration
This article evaluates the role civil society organizations play in helping noncitizen migrant workers access to social rights in Canada. The study focuses on the bilateral Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, a temporary worker scheme that brings Mexicans to Canada to work as harvesters for a four‐to‐eight‐month period. Despite the common description of this program as “best practice,” questions are raised about the ability of workers…
The European Commission and Bureaucratic Autonomy
Journal Article The European Commission and Bureaucratic Autonomy: Europe's Custodians Get access The European Commission and Bureaucratic Autonomy: Europe's Custodians by Antonis A. Ellinas and Ezra Suleiman. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2012. 250 pp. $99.00. Gaspare M. Genna Gaspare M. Genna The University of Texas at El Paso Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 12…
Images of Europeans
The Unexpected Effects of Criminal Violence along the Mexico-Texas Border
The violence and insecurity that Mexico suffered during former President Calderon’s war on the Mexican drug cartels have come at a grave economic cost to many cities. The criminal violence had an impact on interdependent borderlands, which are geographic areas that have a symbiotic link between cities and communities of adjoining territories. Mexican business people and consumers that live in cities along the shared border with the United States …
Rising Powers and Foreign Policy Revisionism
This project contributes to the extensive analysis regarding the consequences of emerging powers by focusing on the roles that Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) play regionally and globally. The authors do so by comparing theoretical approaches and then conducting mixed-methods testing to examine whether the BRICS thus far have displayed conflictual behavior (military and economic). The book is rich in both theoretical develo…
Public perceptions of the European power hierarchy and support for a single European security and defense policy
Many studies focus on overall support for European integration while less work has been done on explaining public opinion on specific policy areas, such as security and defense policy. We hypothesize that the probability of supporting a single European security and defense policy increases with greater levels of trust in the European Union member states, most notably the more powerful members such as Germany. This variable is critical since integ…
A Pathway for Regional Integration
This article seeks to explain levels of regional integration worldwide. The level of regional integration increases as the economic strength of the regional leader increases under higher levels of satisfaction among partners. The homogenization of domestic institutions also increases under these conditions. Finally, there is a reciprocal effect between integration and the homogenization of domestic institutions. Integration therefore cannot be ex…
Safeguarding the promise of integration
We posit that having an economically preponderant member state in a regional integration organization (RIO) helps prevent and defeat coups within member states, particularly in organizations with no formal prohibition against irregular government change. The economic promises of integration require political stability between and within member states. Previous research demonstrates that economically preponderant states, acting as regional leaders…
When States Regionally Integrate
This study compares two articles that seek to explain why states participate in regional integration organizations and why they want to deepen their economic and political partnerships. The method of comparison is the systemist diagrammatic approach, which requires a deconstruction and mapping of ideas found in social science. The articles demonstrate common variables in their explanations, namely that power asymmetry and satisfaction with the st…
Brexit exposed
Uncooperative leadership
Some research indicates that regional integration is more likely when power asymmetry exists among neighbouring states. Theoretically, preponderant powers can act as regional leaders because they can promote the development of collective goods that will entice others into partnerships. Other scholars argue that power asymmetry is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for integration. The preponderant power is to be willing to lead efforts. We…
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