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This book compares existing approaches to regionalism and transregionalism and discusses its global impact on world politics and economy. It argues that for the changing world order, the development of transregionalism would have benign implications on the global level.

The European Union pursues an active foreign policy both in a form of bilateral ties with sovereign states and while interacting with regional associations. The article considers the strategic attractiveness of the Persian Gulf region for the European Union as well as EU's external regional policy (European interregionalism) towards the Gulf Cooperation Council. The paper analyzes the methodological basis of the European interregionalism, the goals and specific directions of the EU's policy in the region, the mechanisms for its implementation, strategic changes in the EU's policy while taking into account the Arab Spring. The authors conclude that the cooperation initially planned in Brussels on the basis of exporting the liberal values could not stand the test of the Arab Spring. In the Global Strategy of 2016 the EU introduced changes that envisage a differentiated approach in the policy of European interregionalism. In the final part, the authors draw the conclusion about the effectiveness of the new EU Global strategy towards the GCC. © 2019 Institute of Europe Russian Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Integrating the Pacific -- Part I. China and Ocean Worlds -- 1. A Very Long Early Modern? Asia and Its Oceans, 1000-1850 / John E. Wills, Jr. -- 2. Transatlantic and Transpacific Connections in Early American History / Kariann Akemi Yokota -- Part II. Circuits and Diaspora -- 3. The Pacific Ocean as Highway to Gold Mountain: The Hong Kong Connection, 1850-1900 / Elizabeth Sinn -- 4. Pop Gingle's Cold War / Peter E. Hamilton -- 5. Chinese and American Collaborations through Educational Exchange during the Era of Exclusion, 1872-1955 / Madeline Y. Hsu -- 6. Japanese Reinvention of Self through Hawai'i's Japanese Americans / Yujin Yaguchi -- 7. Fighting the Postwar in Little Saigon / Phuong Nguyen -- Part III. Racism and Imperialism -- 8. Transpacific Accommodation and the Defense of Asian Immigrants / Lon Kurashige -- 9. Kilsoo Haan, American Intelligence, and the Anticipated Japanese Invasion of California, 1931-1943 / Brian Masaru Hayashi -- 10. Transpacific Adoption: The Korean War, US Missionaries, and Cold War Liberalism / Susie Woo -- 11. Inter-Imperial Relations, the Pacific, and Asian American History / Augusto Espiritu -- 12. Japanese Immigrant Settler Colonialism and the Construction of a US National Security Regime against the Transborder "Yellow Peril" / Eiichiro Azuma -- Part IV. Islands and the Pacific Rim -- 13. How the Portuguese Became White: The Racial Politics of Pre-Annexation Hawai'i / Christen T. Sasaki -- 14. Who Closed the Sea? Archipelagoes of Amnesia between the United States and Japan / Greg Dvorak -- 15. Japanese Commemorations of World War II in the Mariana Islands / Keith L. Camacho -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Since the early 1990s, the European Union has developed new instruments to consolidate its external action, especially in 'low politics'. These new instruments include the signing of interregional arrangements with other regional groups. The EU's region–to–region strategy towards the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) is in keeping with the latest trends of interregionalism. Since the birth of Mercosur, the EU has given technical, financial and diplomatic support to South America's new regional- ism. The long–term goal is to conclude a region–to–region agreement in the political, cooperation and trade fields. By providing this support, the EU plays a role as an 'exter- nal federator' for new regional experiences through its interregionalist projects. Although 'new interregionalism' is a corollary of the new regionalism, interregionalism can contribute to the consolidation of regionalism. Moreover, by encouraging economic multilateralism, interregional arrangements can improve the governance of globalisation. ; Peer reviewed

Relations between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union (EU) have enriched the multifaceted concept of interregionalism from legal and international relations perspectives. The article argues that the transformative ASEAN-EU frameworks have shaped the Third Interregionalism. Brussels' building-block approach envisions pathfinder agreements with individual ASEAN states as the basis for the ASEAN-EU FTA, which will help realize the EU's Indo-Pacific strategy and the ASEAN-EU Strategic Partnership. The designs of the EU's trade and investment agreements with Singapore and Vietnam are therefore critical. The article assesses core areas such as tariff liberalization and ASEAN cumulative rules of origin, as well as commitments of trade in services and non-tariff barriers in key industries. Contributors to the special issue further analyse cutting-edge issues involving electronic commerce and sustainable development. These on-the-ground insights contribute to a new understanding of ASEAN-EU legal frameworks and evolving interregionalism in the post-pandemic era.
ASEAN-EU FTA – CPTPP – Indo-Pacific strategy – Investment Protection – Singapore – RCEP – Sustainable Development – Third Interregionalism – Vietnam

pt. 1, 1. Introduction and overview : the study of new regionalism(s) at the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century / Timothy M. Shaw, J. Andrew Grant, and Scarlett Cornelissen ; 2. Comparing regionalisms : methodological aspects and considiferations / Philippe De Lombaerde ; 3. Formal and informal regionalism / Fredrik Sodiferbaum ; 4. The rise of interregionalisms : the case of the European Union's relations with East Asia / Bart Gaens -- pt. 2, 5. The European Union : a new form of governance / Alberta Sbragia ; 6. Regionalism in flux : politics, economics, and security in the North American region / Laura Macdonald ; 7. Norms, identity, and divergent paths towards regional ordifer in South and Southeast Asia : ASEAN and SAARC in comparative perspective / Charan Rainford ; 8. China and economic regionalism in East Asia / Kevin G. Cai ; 9. Hemispheric regionalism in the Americas / Gordon Mace and Dominic Migneault ; 10. The changing context of regionalism and regionalisation in the Americas : Mercosur and beyond / Marc Schelhase ; 11. The evolution of the African Union Commission and Africrats : drivers of African regionalisms / Thomas Kwasi Tieku ; 12. The 'new' ECOWAS : implications for the study of regional integration / Okechukwu C. Iheduru ; 13. Regional organisation, regional arena : the SADC in Southern Africa / Ulrike Lorenz and Scarlett Cornelissen -- pt. 3, 14. Oceania : a critical regionalism challenging the foreign definition of Pacific identities in pursuit of decolonised destinies / Kate Stone; 15. Middle East regionalisms : can an institution bridge geo-culture to geo-economics? / Bahgat Korany ; 16. Beyond geography : BRIC/SAM and the new contours of regionalism / Agata Antkiewicz and Andrew F. Cooper ; 17. Commonwealths and regionalisms in the first quarter of the twenty-first century / Thomas M. Shaw ; 18. Spatial development initiatives : two case studies from Southern Africa / Ian C. Taylor ; 19. The transnational gang : challenging the conventional narrative / Robert Muggha ; 20. Transfrontier conservation and the spaces of regionalisms / Maano Ramutsindela ; 21. New regionalisms, micro-regionalisms, and the migration-conflict nexus : evidence from natural resource sectors in West Africa / J. Andrew Grant, Matthew I. Mitchell, and Frank K. Nyame

"This book explores the nature of regions and how they function, particularly at the local and micro-level. Whilst recent years have seen a resurgence in debates around the roles which regions can play in development, the focus has tended to be on 'macro' regional institutions such as the EU, ASEAN, ECOWAS or MERCOSUR. In contrast, this book offers a nuanced analysis of the important field of sub-regionalism and sub-national cross-border cooperation.Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation takes a fresh look at both theoretical and empirical approaches to 'region-making' through cooperation activities at the micro-level across national borders in Europe, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. The book aims to explore the role that institutional dynamics play at the micro-level in shaping local and global ties, investigate what the formal and informal integration factors are that bolster regionalism and regionalization processes, and to clarify to what extent, and under what conditions, cooperation at the micro-level can be instrumental to solving common problems.Scholars and students within politics, sociology, geography, and economics would find this book an important guide to regionalism at a micro-local level perspective."--Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 EU-Latin American Interregionalism -- 1.1 Regionalism and integration -- 1.2 The European Union and Latin America -- 1.3 Regionness and hybrid interregionalism -- 2 EU Policies towards Latin America -- 2.1 The EU system of external relations -- 2.2 EU institutions and Latin America -- 2.3 EU policies and Latin America -- 3 The Summits -- 3.1 Background of the interregional relationship -- 3.2 The summits: Rediscovering the other transatlantic relationship -- 4 Association Agreements

Current scholarship on European Union-Middle East relations has contributed little to ongoing theoretical debates in the academic discipline of international relations. Yet several influential research programmes regarding world politics would benefit from incorporating events and trends involving these two regions. In particular, conceptual controversies regarding regional and global security, the diffusion of regional identities, interregionalism and overlapping regionalism and the politics of empire will be advanced when specialists concentrate on analytical puzzles, and move beyond descriptive, evaluative and prescriptive accounts.
Security, interregionalism, overlapping regionalism, empire, European Union

The book critically analyzes the ongoing changes in the regional, intra-regional, and global dynamics of cooperation, from a multi-disciplinary and pluralist perspective. It is based on the insight that in a post-hegemonic world the formation of regions and the process of globalization can be largely disconnected from the orbit of the US, and that a plurality of power and worldviews has replaced US hegemony. In spite of these changes, most existing analyses of current changes in the world order still rely upon Western-centered approaches, and Westphalian thinking. Against this backdrop, the book proposes to advance a truly global IR understanding of the post-hegemonic world, and weaves together the pluralist and multi-disciplinary perspectives of scholars located all around the world

Interregionalism and interregional cooperation: the case of Asia-Europe relations/ J(c)ơrgen R(c)ơland and Cornelia Storz -- Regional organizations as actors in international relations: interregionalism and asymmetric dialogues/ Mathew Doidge -- Governance, Asia-European relations and regional trade agreements/ Doris Fischer -- Interregional trade and investment between Asia and Europe: an empirical investigation/ Hanns G. Hilpert and Klaus-Jochem Kecker -- The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) and its contribution to the political management of globalization/ Howard Loewen and Dirk Nabers -- Asian-European relations: more security through inter-and transregional relations?/ Frank Umbach -- EU-Asia human rights policy: pursuing the path of institutionalism/ Martina Timmermann -- On the potentials of interregional policy cooperation: the case of Europe's participation in the Asian Development Bank/ Werner Pascha -- Merger and acquisition between Japanese and European enterprises: how to integrate different institutional regimes/ Andreas Moerke -- Beyond the taboos? The opportunities and limitations of Asian-European track-two dialogue/ Katja Freistein -- The democratization of inter- and transregional dialogues: the role of civil society, NGOs and parliaments/ Sebastian Bersick -- Main findings and conclusion: assessing the surplus value of Asia-Europe interregionalism/ Gunter Schubert

"This international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities in different circumstances - from the emergent to the recently amalgamated, on 'soft' and 'hard' borders, with post-colonial heritage, in post-conflict environments and under strain. With examples from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, South America, North America and the Caribbean, the volume sees twin cities as intense thermometers for developments in the wider urban world globally. It offers interdisciplinary perspectives that bridge history, politics, culture, economy, geography and other fields, applying these lenses to examples of twin cities in remote places. Providing a comparative approach and drawing on a range of methodologies, the book explores where and how twin cities arise; what twin cities can tell us about international borders; and the way in which some twin cities bear the spatial marks of their colonial past. The chapters explore the impact on twin-city relations of contemporary pressures, such as mass migration, the rise of populism, East-West tensions, international crime, climate change, surveillance, rebordering trends and epidemiological risks triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. With case studies across the continents, this volume for the first time extends twin-city debates to fictional imaginings of twin cities. Twin Cities across Five Continents is a valuable resource for researchers in the fields of anthropology, history, geography, urban studies, border studies, international relations and global development as well as for students in these disciplines"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Multiple modernities and regional/ interregional multilateralism -- Chapter 1: Constrained diversity: modernities, regionalism, and polyvalent globalism in world politics -- Multiple modernities and variants of modernity -- Regionalisms and regionalization -- Polymorphic globalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Multiple modernities and regional multilateralism: a political-cultural point of view -- Kant's "Perpetual Peace" and beyond -- Republicanism and multiple modernities -- The logic and dynamics of modernization -- Social actors and interpretations -- Levels of cultural identity and political cooperation -- Regions, cultures, and identities -- Change in political culture -- "Perpetual peace" revisited -- References -- Chapter 3: Transnational governance and multiple multilateralisms -- Multilateralism as practice -- Multilateralism in practice -- Multilateralism in prospect -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Regional diversity, interregional/transregional dialogues, and the new multilateralism -- Introduction -- Convergences and divergences in national debates about the coming world order -- Conceptualizing and comparing interregionalist partnerships as a test for intercultural dialogue -- Diachronic dimensions of EU interregionalism from the 1990s to the present -- The emergence of competing interregionalism: convergences, failures, and power relations -- Interregionalism and new multilateralism: five issues -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Part II: History and drivers of regional cooperation: trade, identity, security.

RESUMENEn el presente artí­culo el análisis se ha centrado en determinar cuáles de las funciones del interregionalismo, sistematizadas en los trabajos de Jí¼rgen Rí¼land, han sido desarrolladas en la relación Unión Europea-Comunidad Andina de Naciones, ya que ello ha permitido evidenciar si el estado del proceso de integración de la CAN ha condicionado la racionalidad polí­tica del comportamiento de la Unión Europea hacia la región andina (civil power o soft imperialism); esto posibilitará establecer la viabilidad de la firma del Acuerdo de Asociación Unión Europea-Comunidad Andina de Naciones.Palabras clave: Unión Europea, Comunidad Andina, interregionalismo, funciones, acuerdo de asociación. Interregionalism functions in the EU-ANDEAN community relationsABSTRACTIn the present article analysis has focused on which functions of interregionalism, systematized by Jí¼rgen Rí¼land, have been developed in the European Union-Andean Community birregional relation, that allowed demonstrate if the state of the integration process in the Andean Community has conditioned the political rationality of the European Union towards the Andean region (civil power or soft imperialism); with all these elements will be possible to establish the viability of the Association Agreement signature between the European Union and the Andean Community.Keywords: European Union, Andean Community, interregionalism, functions, association agreement.