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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.

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

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

Abstract Interregionalism has been increasingly used to advance cooperation on regional and global security challenges. This study examines three interregional dialogues comprising East Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Each interregional security agenda reflects specific concerns and different evolving paths. Insights from 'multilateral security governance' approaches can reinforce the analysis of how security agendas emerge and change, and how their related norms and practices evolve.

This article is part of the 'EU-NormCon research project' ('Normative contestation in Europe: Implications for the EU in a changing global order') funded by the National R+D Plan of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (CSO2016-79205-P). ; Interregionalism has been increasingly used to advance cooperation on regional and global security challenges. This study examines three interregional dialogues comprising East Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Each interregional security agenda reflects specific concerns and different evolving paths. Insights from 'multilateral security governance' approaches can reinforce the analysis of how security agendas emerge and change, and how their related norms and practices evolve.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables and Maps -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Changing regionalism: historical continuity and critical junctures -- 2 Political drivers of regionalism and interregionalism: contribution to comparative studies -- 3 A new critical juncture: competitive regionalism -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index

This book provides an alternative approach to regionalism in neglected parts of the world. Taking stock of several decades of conceptualization, the author provides a political sociology approach of regionalisms fed by recent contributions from the sociology of international relations and public policy analysis. It uses a methodological rather than theoretical framework to bring a new perspective on an emerging field of comparative regionalism. The relational dimensions, the social contexts and characteristics of actors and their practices are key to shed a new light on what is considered in this book as a 'social international phenomenon'. Kevin Parthenay is Lecturer in Political Science at Sciences Po, France. Attached to the Centre for International Research and Studies (CERI) and to the Political Observatory for Latin American and the Caribbean (OPALC), his research focuses on comparative regionalism, Central American democracies and foreign policies.

Abstract Brazil-European Union relations punch below their weight. Cooperation takes place at three levels: relations with European Union (EU) member states, Brazil`s partnership with Brussels, and EU-MERCOSUR negotiations. This multilevel governance contrasts with poor results: there is no free trade agreement, development cooperation became irrelevant, and international positions rarely converge. The article explores the reasons for the underperformance by comparing foreign policy shifts in Brazil and the EU, and analyzing multilevel governance in selected sectors of cooperation. It is based on four assumptions: multilevel relations are uncoordinated, idealist inter-regionalism doesn't work, and crisis-driven, liberal realist foreign policies in Brazil and the EU facilitate bilateralism.

International organizations as new subjects of international law and its institutionalization -- Place and position of international organizations within international law system -- Regionalism and international law -- Old and new regionalism -- Treaty and institutional regionalism -- Regional judicial and non judicial bodies and their importance for proper functioning of regional systems -- Interregionalism -- Relation of regionalism and regional organizations with respect to general international law.

Foreword -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Regionalism and Regionalisation: A Theoretical Approach -- 2.1 Regionalism and Regionalisation in the Theory of Social Sciences -- 2.2 Old Versus New Regionalism: A Comparative Analysis -- 2.3 Regionalism and Regionalisation in the Context of Globalisation -- 2.4 The Types of Regionalism: A Review -- 2.5 Regionalism Versus Multilateralism, Interregionalism and Microregionalism -- 2.6 The Selected Methods for Measuring the Phenomena of Regionalism and Regionalisation -- Notes