Rethinking Regionalism
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Rethinking Regionalism

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Rethinking Regionalism

About this book

Since the late 1980s, there has been a global upsurge of various forms of regionalist projects. The widening and deepening of the European Union (EU) is the most prominent example, but there has also been a revitalization or expansion of many other regionalist projects as well, such as the African Union (AU), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). More or less every government in the world is engaged in regionalism, which also involves a rich variety of business and civil society actors, resulting in a multitude of regional processes in most fields of contemporary politics. In this new text, Fredrik Söderbaum draws on decades of scholarship to provide a major reassessment of regionalism and to address questions about its origins, logic and consequences.

By examining regionalism from historical, spatial, comparative and global perspectives, Rethinking Regionalism transcends the deep intellectual and disciplinary rivalries that have limited our knowledge about the subject. This broad-ranging approach enables new and challenging answers to emerge as to why and how regionalism evolves and consolidates, how it can be compared, and what its ongoing significance is for a host of issues within global politics, from security and trade to development and the environment. Retaining a balanced and authoritative style throughout, this text will be welcomed for its uniquely comprehensive examination of regionalism in the contemporary global age.

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Old 
regionalism
New 
regionalism
Comparative 
regionalism
World 
order 
context
•
Post–World 
War 
II 
and 
Cold 
War 
context 
(in 
Europe)
•
Bipolarity 
but 
also 
post-colonialism 
provided 
context 
for 
the 
developing 
world 
•
Post–Cold 
War 
context
•
Globalization 
and 
neoliberalism 
•
Unstable 
multilateralism 
(e.g. 
trade, 
security)
•
Transformation 
of 
the 
nation-state
•
Multipolar 
and 
‘multiplex’ 
world 
order
•
War 
on 
terror
•
Financial 
crises
•
Rise 
of 
BRICS 
and 
emerging 
powers
Links 
between 
national, 
regional 
and 
global 
governance
•
Regional 
integration 
‘beyond 
the 
nation-
state’ 
(in 
Europe) 
and 
•
advancing 
development 
and 
nation-building 
(in 
the 
developing 
world)
•
Regionalism 
seen 
as 
resisting, 
taming 
or 
advancing 
economic 
globalization
•
Regional 
governance 
part 
of 
multilayered 
global 
governance 
Sectors, 
actors 
& 
forms 
of 
organization
•
Sector 
specific 
(e.g. 
trade 
and 
security)
•
Formal 
and 
states-led 
regionalism 
through 
regional 
organizations
•
Multisectoral 
or 
specialized
•
State 
vs. 
non-state 
actors
•
Regionalism 
vs. 
regionalization
•
Formal 
vs. 
informal
•
State 
and 
non-state 
actors 
grouped 
in 
formal 
and 
informal 
forms 
of 
organization 
in 
growing 
number 
of 
sectors
Table 
2.1 
Old, 
new 
and 
comparative 
regionalism
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Tables
  4. Foreword
  5. Preface
  6. Abbreviations
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. 2 Learning from History
  9. 3 Learning from Theory
  10. 4 The Richness of Comparative Regionalism
  11. 5 Obviating the Gap Between Formal and Informal Regionalism
  12. 6 Organizing Regional Space
  13. 7 Multidimensional Regionalism
  14. 8 Civil Society in Regionalism
  15. 9 External Actors in Regionalism
  16. 10 Regionness: The Solidification of Regions
  17. 11 Regions in Interregionalism
  18. 12 Regions in Global Governance
  19. 13 Conclusion
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index