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.
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
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.