European Union and new regionalism competing regionalism and global governance in a post-hegemonic era (Ashgate, 2014)
Cover; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Planispheres; Notes on Contributors; Foreword to the Third Edition: Regionalism -- A New Paradigm?; Preface to the Third Edition and Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Globalization, New Regionalism and the Role of the European Union; Part I: Theoretical Perspectives; 1 Regional Blocs, World Order and the New Medievalism; 2 The Political Economy of New Regionalism and World Governance; 3 Cultural Difference, Regionalization and Globalization; 4 Alternative Models of Regional Cooperation?
5 Interregionalism and World Order: The Diverging EU and US ModelsPart II: Comparative Analysis of Regional Groupings; 6 Between Trade Regionalization and Various Paths towards Deeper Cooperation; 7 NAFTA and United States Regional Trade Policy; 8 Competing Latin American Regionalisms in a Changing World; 9 African Regionalism and EU-African Interregionalism; 10 Southeast Asian and European Integration Compared; Part III: European Union as a New Civilian Power in the Making; 11 The European Union and the Challenges of the Near Abroad
12 The European Union, the Eastern Neighbourhood and Russia: Competing Regionalisms13 Regionalism, the European Union and the Arab Awakening; 14 Europe: Trading Power, American Hunting Dog, or the World's Scandinavia?; Part IV: Reconsiderations; 15 European Union, Regionalism, New Multilateralism: Three Scenarios; Appendix: Regional, Interregional and Global Arrangements and Multilateral Organizations; Planispheres; Bibliography; Index
Stemming from an international 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 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 the European Union