European Union and new regionalism: regional actors and global governance in a post-hegemonic era

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.

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?

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.

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

Stemming from an international and multidisciplinary network of leading specialists, this best-selling text is fully updated with new chapter additions. The new edition highlights external relations in the framework of the development of regional arrangements within the globalized world of the 21st century.

Stemming from an international and multidisciplinary network of leading specialists, this best-selling text is fully updated with new chapter additions. The new edition highlights external relations in the framework of the development of regional arrangements within the globalized world of the 21st century