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Stemming from an international and multidisciplinary network of leading specialists, this text is fully updated with new chapter additions. With the first edition prepared at the end of the 20th century, this new edition anticipates the world of regionalism as we move further into this millennium.
This new edition offers:
- A vigorous response to conventional wisdom on EU international identity
- An exploration of key issues of regionalism versus globalization and the potential for world economic and political governance through regionalism
- A key resource for postgraduate or undergraduate study and research of international relations, European studies, comparative politics and international political economy.
Taking into account the expanded European Union, the volume comprises contributions from established scholars in the field to highlight external relations in the framework of the development of regional arrangements within the globalized world of the 21st century.
Contents:
Foreword: regionalism – a new paradigm? - George Howard Joffé;
Introduction: globalization, 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, regionalization and globalization - Thomas Meyer
Alternative models of regional cooperation? The limits of regional institutionalization in East Asia - Richard Higgott
Interregionalism and world order: the diverging EU and US models - Björn Hettne
Part II. Comparative Analysis of Regional Groupings
Between trade regionalization and various paths towards deeper cooperation - Mario Telò
European Union and NAFTA - Alberta M. Sbragia
European Union and MERCOSUR - Álvaro Vasconcelos
African regionalism and EU-African interregionalisn - Fred Söderbaum
Comparison of European and Southeast Asian integration - Kjell A. Eliassen and Catherine Børve Arnesen
Part III. European Union as a New Civilian Power in the Making?
The European Union and the challenges of the near abroad - Mario Telò
European Union and Eastern Europe - Reimund Seidelmann
The EU and the Mediterranean: open regionalism or peripheral dependence? - George Howard 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: list of regional and interregional arrangements - Sebastian Santander
Planispheres - Pablo Medina Lockhart
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