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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.

"Challenging the conventional processes of conceptualising the European Union as an actor, this study provides a timely and in-depth analysis of EU-ASEAN relations which contests the use of power as the basis of such conceptualisations. It assesses the EU's actorness by analysing its attempts to promote its regionalism experience to ASEAN. Three aspects of regionalism - economic integration, institutionalisation and political norms - are analysed using data collected from officials and researchers connected to these regions. In doing so, this compelling volume shows that the effectiveness of the EU's aim to diffuse these norms is predominantly determined both by ASEAN's perception of the EU as an actor and its consideration of the EU's regionalism experience as relevant to ASEAN"--

"Challenging the conventional processes of conceptualising the European Union as an actor, this study provides a timely and in-depth analysis of EU-ASEAN relations which contests the use of power as the basis of such conceptualisations. It assesses the EU's actorness by analysing its attempts to promote its regionalism experience to ASEAN. Three aspects of regionalism - economic integration, institutionalisation and political norms - are analysed using data collected from officials and researchers connected to these regions. In doing so, this compelling volume shows that the effectiveness of the EU's aim to diffuse these norms is predominantly determined both by ASEAN's perception of the EU as an actor and its consideration of the EU's regionalism experience as relevant to ASEAN"--

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Note -- Bibliography -- Part I Theorising Africa-EU relations through history -- Introduction to Part I -- Contextualising the theorising on Africa-EU relations -- African agency in theory or a brave new world for Africa-EU relations? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 1 International Relations theory: Comparative reflections on EU-Africa relations -- Structural pattern -- Realism and international anarchy: The case of EU-Africa relations -- Liberalism and EU-Africa interregional dependence -- EU-Africa relations in constructivist perspective -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- 2 Regionalism and interregionalism in EU-Africa relations -- From European to regional integration -- Beyond a Eurocentrist reading of African regionalism -- Postcolonial regionalism in Africa and the role of interregionalism with Europe -- EU-Africa relations through the lens of interregionalism -- Fluid regional delineations -- Interregionalism and asymmetry -- Regional cohesion -- Interregionalism and institutionalisation -- The interregionalism-regionalism nexus -- From interregionalism to interregionalisms -- Note -- Bibliography -- 3 Applying postcolonial approaches to studies of Africa-EU relations -- What are postcolonial approaches? -- Colonial legacy, historical amnesia and decentring Europe -- The meaning of partnership: Paternalism and the ontological Other -- Market liberalisation and a changing world order in a postcolonial global economy -- Politicisation and regional actorness: Rearticulating subjectivity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II Evolving governance in EU-Africa relations.