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The relationship between the European Union and the Latin American region is a part of the logic of inter-regionalism. This article approaches this relation particularly as regards Latin American integration. To this end, it first addresses a conceptual overview (considering the academic implications of concepts such as, e.g., region, regionalism, and inter-regionalism, among others). A documentary method was used for verifying the existence of an interregional strategy for the European Union and the possible Americanization of such a strategy. As a result of this, the existence of this strategy has translated, among other things, into the negotiation of a Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Andean Community of Nations (FTA EU-ACN). Two major conclusions can be drawn from this article. On the one hand, there is evidence of said Americanization, and on the other hand, the second conclusion is that the international presence of Europe as a regional actor has grown strong. This strength is comparable with the strengthening of its soft power worldwide. ; La relación Unión Europea - América Latina se inscribe en la lógica del interregionalismo. En este artículo se aborda esa relación, especialmente en lo que concierne a la integración de América Latina. Para ello se ofrece, en un primer momento un panorama conceptual (desde las implicaciones académicas de región, regionalismo e interregionalismo, entre otros). Mediante el método documental se verificó la existencia de una estrategia interregional de la Unión Europea y la posible norteamericanización de la misma. Se obtuvo como resultado que la existencia de la estrategia se ha traducido (entre otras) en la negociación del Tratado de Libre Comercio entre la Unión Europea y la Comunidad Andina de Naciones (TLC UE-CAN). Se llegó finalmente a dos conclusiones mayores. La primera es la constatación de dicha norteamericanización. La segunda es que se observa una profundización de la presencia internacional de Europa como actor regional y que esto es comparable con la profundización de su poder blando en el mundo.

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.

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.