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This last decade, regional organizations progressively became
unavoidable actors of regional health governance and have been supported by some global health actors to strengthen such a role. Among these actors, the European Union (EU) is the only regional organization that implements health initiatives in cooperation with its regional counterparts. This article focuses on such "health interregionalism" toward Southeast Asia and Africa and in the field of communicable diseases, with the main objective of assessing its nature and identifying its main functions. It concludes that although appreciated and needed, the EU's health interregionalism should better reflect the EU's experience in regional health governance in order to represent a unique instrument of development aid and an added value for regional organizations

In its external regional policy (European interregionalism), the European Union attaches great importance to Latin-Caribbean America, taking into account its enormous economic, market, human and raw material potential. The European Union is developing cooperation with Latin American countries in a very competitive environment. The United States have the traditional influence in the region. The US for centuries have been involved in the formation of the region. Since 2014, China has pushed the EU to the third place in terms of economic cooperation with Latin American countries. The European Union responds to this competition with a well-structured policy of investment and offers mutually beneficial cooperation to Latin American regional institutions. The EU heeds the new requests of the Latin American regional community. This creates certain competitive advantages for the European Union in the region.Key words: European Union, Latin-Caribbean America, European Interregionalism, MERCOSUR, UNASUR, the Andean Community, the San Jose Group, the Rio Group, ALBA, CELAC. ; В своей внешней региональной политике (европейский интеррегионализм) Европейский союз придает важное значение Латинско-Карибской Америке, учитывая ее огромный экономический, рыночный, человеческий и сырьевой потенциал. Европейский союз развивает сотрудничество с латиноамериканскими странами в острой конкурентной среде, прежде всего с США и Китаем. Традиционное влияние в регионе имеют США. В то время как Китай с 2014 г. потеснил ЕС на третье место по объему экономического сотрудничества со странами Латинско-Карибской Америки. Европейский союз стремится противопоставить США и Китаю в регионе хорошо структурированную политику инвестиций и взаимовыгодного сотрудничества с латиноамериканскими региональными институтами, учитывающую новые запросы латиноамериканского регионального сообщества. Это придает Европейскому союзу определенные конкурентные преимущества в регионе.Ключевые слова: Европейский союз, Латинско-Карибская Америка, европейский интеррегионализм, Сообщество латиноамериканских и карибских государств, МЕРКОСУР, УНАСУР, Андское сообщество, группа Сан-Хосе, группа Рио, АЛБА.

The article starts from an analysis of S.P. Huntington's theory of the clash of civilizations and puts in evidence one of its critical points, i.e. the fact that Huntington does not pay any attention to the development by the EU of a particular kind of actorness through the promotion of interregionalism worldwide. Tracing the history of the different phases of success and decline of both theories, the article attempts to test their persistent explanatory and analytical capacity in relation to current developments in the international arena as well as in the academic context.