Global Social Policy Forum: Guest Editors' Introduction.

The article presents a brief overview on the various papers that formed part of the "Global Social Policy Forum." These papers focus on the protagonist role of social movements and civil society organizations in the challenge of developing and pursuing new strategies for building regional alternatives. The authors inquire alternative regionalisms from different perspectives. They then reflect the complexity and the specificity of the current stages of development in the existing regions and the diversity of factors coming to bear on the outcome of regional integration in Asia, Africa and Latin America.