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This text is fully updated with new chapter additions. With the first edition prepared at the end of the last century and the second edition adding inter-regional relations, this new edition focuses on competing models of regional cooperation within a multipolar world and the role of European Union.
This new edition offers:
- A comparative analysis of regional cooperation and of both US-centred and EU-centred interregionalism.
- A fresh exploration of key issues of regionalism versus globalisation and the potential for world economic and political governance through regional cooperation, notably in hard times.
- A vigorous response to conventional wisdom on the controversial EU international identity
- An appendix on regional and interregional organisations.
- A key resource for postgraduate or undergraduate study and research of international relations, European integration studies, comparative politics and international political economy.
Taking into account both the expanded European Union and regional cooperation in every continent, this multidisciplinary volume comprises contributions from established scholars in the field: A. Gamble, P. Padoan, G. Joffé, G. Therborn, Th. Meyer, R. Higgott, B. Hettne / F. Ponjaert, F. Soederbaum, Ch. Deblock, K. Eliassen / A. Arnottir, S. Keukeleire / I. Petrova, S. Santander and M. Telò (editor).
Contents:
+ Foreword to the Third Edition: regionalism - a new paradigm?, George Joffé
+ Introduction: globalisation, new regionalism and the role of the European Union, Mario Telò
Part I Theoretical Perspectives:
+ Regional blocs, world order and the new medievalism, Andrew Gamble
+ The political economy of new regionalism and world governance, Pier Carlo Padoan
+ Cultural difference, regionalisation and globalisation, Thomas Meyer
+ Alternative models of regional cooperation? The limits of regional institutionalisation in East Asia, Richard Higgott
+ Interregionalism and world order: the diverging EU and US models, Björn Hettne and Frederik Ponjaert
Part II Comparative Analysis of Regional Groupings:
+ Between trade regionalisation and various paths towards deeper cooperation, Mario Telò
+ NAFTA and United States regional trade policy, Christian Deblock
+ Competing Latin American regionalisms in a changing world, Sebastian Santander
+ African regionalism and EU-African interregionalism, Fredrik Söderbaum
+ Southeast Asian and European integration compared, Kjell A. Eliassen and Agnes Árnadóttir
Part III European Union as a New Civilian Power in the Making:
+ The European Union and the challenges of the near abroad, Mario Telò
+ The European Union, the eastern neighbourhood and Russia: competing regionalisms, Stephan Keukeleire and Irina Petrova
+ Regionalism, the European Union and the Arab awakening, George Joffé
+ Europe: trading power, American hunting dog, or the world’s Scandinavia?, Göran Therborn
Part IV Reconsiderations:
+ European Union, regionalism, new multilateralism: three scenarios, Mario Telò
+ Appendix: regional, interregional and global arrangements and multilateral organisations, Sebastian Santander
+ Planispheres, Pablo Medina Lockhart
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