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This volume presents the state of the art of the new phenomenon interregionalism examining both empirical observations and theoretical explanations.

Katada reviews INTERREGIONALISM AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS edited by Heiner Hanggi, Ralf Roloff, and Jurgen Ruland.

Interregionalism and International Relations, Heiner
Hänggi, Ralf Roloff and Jürgen Rüland, eds., Routledge
Advances in International Relations and Global Politics; London:
Routledge, 2006, pp. 364.How do we explain a widespread international phenomenon that only
occasionally contributes to the geo-strategic or economic interests of the
participating states? This book is about interregionalism, the
international organizations and institutions that link regional
organizations from more than one region of the world (as, for example,
ASEM, also known as Asia-Europe Meeting) or that span across more than one
region, such as APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation) or FTAA (Free
Trade Area of the Americas). The fact is that few of these institutions
have accomplished much in concrete terms, yet they continue to
proliferate, as the four-and-a-half page list of acronyms at the beginning
of this volume amply demonstrates.

This paper reviews the edited volume titled The Unintended Consequences of Interregionalism: Effects on Regional Actors, Societies and Structures. The book offers an alternative perspective to studies on interregionalism. Despite not being a new phenomenon, interregional dialogues between regional groups from different parts of the world have resurged since the 1990s, together with many studies trying to define and analyze them. Yet, most of the existing works on the topic adopt a deductive approach, contain a Euro-centric focus, and highlight whether interregional dialogues achieved what they intended. The Unintended Consequences of Interregionalism breaks these norms. It not only approaches the topic inductively but also considers myriad regionalisms. Accordingly, the various regions produce distinct "regionalisms" and, therefore, a plethora of "interregionalisms" exist. The edited volume supplies a unique perspective—one that grapples with the unintended outcomes of interregional interactions.

Sejak tahun 1970an ASEAN telah mengembangkan bi-regional arrangement dengan organisasi regional di luar kawasan Asia Tenggara dan hybrid interregionalism dengan negara-negara yang memiliki pengaruh di kawasan ini. Anggota-anggota ASEAN juga secara individual mengambil peran aktif dalam transregional arrangement dengan negara-negara non anggota ASEAN. Ragam interregionalisme semakin diperkuat sejak pemimpin-pemimpin ASEAN mencanangkan cita-cita pembentukan komunitas ASEAN di tahun 2003.Penelitian ini mengkaji kontribusi interregionalisme yang melibatkan ASEAN sebagai organisasi maupun negara-negara secara individual terhadap proses pembentukan komunitas ASEAN. Penelitian ini mengikuti argumentasi teoretisi Transaksionalisme, yang menyatakan bahwa interaksi intens dan ekstensif di antara aktor-aktor regional sangat penting untuk menghasilkan fondansi 'we feeling' yang fundamental bagi pembentukan komunitas regional. Berangkat dari konsepsi ini, penelitian ini melihat bahwa faktor determinan untuk penguatan institusi regional bersifat endogenous – terkait kemampuan bangsa-bangsa untuk mendefinisikan identitas regional, membangun kerangka normatif dan organisasional yang menjadi 'code of conduct' dalam interaksi reguler mereka; pendefinisian identitas regional ini merupakan hasil interaksi yang intens dan ekstensif di antara aktor-aktor yang menjadi bagian dalam proses integrasi. Pertanyaan penelitian tentang hubungan interregionalisme dan pembentukan komunitas ASEAN ini menjadi menarik untuk dikaji lebih jauh karena interregionalisme bersentuhan erat dengan faktor yang bersifat exogenous yang berpotensi untuk memperlemah pembentukan 'identitas regional'.Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa bi-regional arrangement dan hybrid interregionalism yang dikembangkan negara-negara ASEAN secara kolektif-institusional maupun transregional arrangement yang melibatkan negara-negara dengan kapasitas individual masing telah menjadikan konstruksi komunitas ASEAN lebih bersifat terbuka dan adaptif terhadap pengaruh ekstra regional. Interregionalisme telah membantu negara-negara anggota untuk memperkuat modalitas dan kapasitas bagi integrasi politik keamanan dan ekonomik dan memfasilitasi konektivitas di antara bangsa-bangsa Asia Tenggara; dan dengan demikian secara potensial menumbuhkan nilai-nilai ke-ASEAN-an di antara mereka. Namun demikian, interregionalisme membawa tantangan aktual serius bagi konsolidasi integrasi ASEAN di bidang ekonomik dan politik-keamanan; konstruksi ASEAN tetap akan dipengaruhi oleh pengaruh-pengaruh eksternal yang diciptakan oleh mitra-mitra interregional ASEAN.

This book focuses on EU-MERCOSUR relations from a diplomatic and trade perspective against the background of the political agreement between the two in 2019. The authors take into consideration that EU-MERCOSUR cooperation developed during recent decades has tried, on the one hand, to build a strategic partnership to respond to the main challenges of international agendas and, on the other, to incorporate in Latin American countries the European new vision of transatlantic regionalism. Starting from a historical perspective of the development of interregionalism between the EU and MERCOSUR, the book goes on to study the geopolitical impacts of Brexit, stagnation of the EU-USA relationship, the COVID-19 pandemic, and of new geopolitical players in EU-LAC interregionalism. It discusses the legal institutional framework of the EU-MERCOSUR relations and provides a comparative view of features of MERCOSUR countries vis-à-vis the European Union. The book also analyses and provides a comprehensive overview of various aspects of interregional trade in the context of the 2019 agreement. Highly topical and authored by experts in this field, this book is of interest to a wide readership in the social sciences and economics: from political sociology to international relations, diplomacy studies and international trade.

"This book has two mutually reinforcing aims/parts. The first aim is to contribute to a more productive debate between different theoretical standpoints. There is surprisingly little theoretical and conceptual debate in this burgeoning field, which is one major reason for the failure to fully grasp the diversity of today's interregionalism. Too often theorists speak past each other, without really engaging with alternative theoretical perspectives or competing research results. Indeed, this book constitutes the first systematic attempt to bring together leading theories and theorists of interregionalism. Leading scholars from around the world develop their own distinctive theoretical perspectives on interregionalism, with a particular emphasis on the dynamic relationship between regionalism and interregionalism. These highly acclaimed theorists have all been associated over the years with a variety of disciplines, institutions, schools and debates and so bring a rich set of insights and connections to this pioneering project. The second part of the book 'unpacks' and problematises the region, the driving actors and institutions that are engaged in interregional relations. There is a strong tendency in the field to treat regions as coherent units actors in an interregional relationship, and such simplified notions about 'regions' and 'regional organisations' necessarily result in superficial and misleading understandings of interregionalism. This part of the book connects the theoretical discussion in the first part with a manageable empirical object."--Publisher's description