Ashgate, 2007. Second Edition. 406 pp.
Stemming from an inteational and multidisciplinary network of leading specialists, this best-selling text is fully updated with new chapter additions. With the first edition prepared at the end of the last 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 inteational identity.
- An exploration of key issues of regionalism versus globalization and the potential for world economic and political goveance through regionalism.
- A key resource for postgraduate or undergraduate study and research of inteational relations, European studies, comparative politics and inteational political economy.
Taking into account the expanded European Union, the volume comprises contributions from established scholars in the field to highlight exteal relations in the framework of the development of regional arrangements within the globalized world of the 21st century.
Foreword: regionalism – a new paradigm?
Introduction: globalization, new regionalism and the role of the European Union
I. Theoretical Perspectives
Regional blocs, world order and the new Medievalism
The political economy of new regionalism and world goveance
Cultural difference, regionalization and globalization
Alteative models of regional cooperation? The limits of regional institutionalization in East Asia
Interregionalism and world order: the diverging EU and US models
II. Comparative Analysis of Regional Groupings
Between trade regionalization and various paths towards deeper cooperation
European Union and NAFTA
European Union and MERCOSUR
African regionalism and EU-African interregionalisn
Comparison of European and Southeast Asian integration
III. European Union as a New Civilian Power in the Making?
The European Union and the challenges of the near abroad
European Union and Easte Europe
The EU and the Mediterranean: open regionalism or peripheral dependence?
Europe: trading power, American hunting dog, or the world's Scandinavia?
IV. Reconsiderations
European Union, regionalism, new multilateralism: 3 scenarios
Appendix: list of regional and interregional arrangements
Bibliography
Index
Stemming from an inteational and multidisciplinary network of leading specialists, this best-selling text is fully updated with new chapter additions. With the first edition prepared at the end of the last 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 inteational identity.
- An exploration of key issues of regionalism versus globalization and the potential for world economic and political goveance through regionalism.
- A key resource for postgraduate or undergraduate study and research of inteational relations, European studies, comparative politics and inteational political economy.
Taking into account the expanded European Union, the volume comprises contributions from established scholars in the field to highlight exteal relations in the framework of the development of regional arrangements within the globalized world of the 21st century.
Foreword: regionalism – a new paradigm?
Introduction: globalization, new regionalism and the role of the European Union
I. Theoretical Perspectives
Regional blocs, world order and the new Medievalism
The political economy of new regionalism and world goveance
Cultural difference, regionalization and globalization
Alteative models of regional cooperation? The limits of regional institutionalization in East Asia
Interregionalism and world order: the diverging EU and US models
II. Comparative Analysis of Regional Groupings
Between trade regionalization and various paths towards deeper cooperation
European Union and NAFTA
European Union and MERCOSUR
African regionalism and EU-African interregionalisn
Comparison of European and Southeast Asian integration
III. European Union as a New Civilian Power in the Making?
The European Union and the challenges of the near abroad
European Union and Easte Europe
The EU and the Mediterranean: open regionalism or peripheral dependence?
Europe: trading power, American hunting dog, or the world's Scandinavia?
IV. Reconsiderations
European Union, regionalism, new multilateralism: 3 scenarios
Appendix: list of regional and interregional arrangements
Bibliography
Index