1. Introduction : a world of regionalisms -- 2. Amalgamatio and hysteresis -- 3. The politics of economic cooperation : regime consolidation, club diplomacy and patronage -- 4. The magnetic pull of frontiers -- 5. Mental maps and holistic agendas -- 6. Defragmentation and connectivity -- 7. The frontier as concept and metaphor : Africa in international relations.
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Dieses Schwerpunktheft enthält Artikel zu folgenden Themen: (1) Strukturanpassung und Zusammenbruch ideologischer Modelle in afrikanischen Staaten, (2) die Marginalisierung Afrikas auf diplomatischer, wirtschaftlicher und finanzieller Ebene, (3) die Auswirkungen der Beendigung des Kalten Krieges auf Afrika, z.B. auf die Konflikte am Horn von Afrika, (4) europäisch-afrikanische Beziehungen, (5) die regionale und internationale Politik der Maghreb-Staaten, (6) die Bedeutung Nigerias innerhalb Afrikas (Anspruch auf eine Führungsrolle?), (7) die Außenpolitik Südafrikas gegenüber den anderen Staaten des Südlichen Afrikas. Im Anhang befindet sich eine Chronologie der Außenbeziehungen Kanadas und Quebecs von Januar bis März 1991. (DÜI-Hff)
The article reviews transformations observed in the post-soviet space and raises the question of their implications for students of comparative regionalisms. It is first argued that such a discussion deserves to be more systematically related to that of the shifting 'grammars' of globalization. Unlike what was the case in the 1990s, globalization refers today to a fragmented, multipolar, yet globalized, world. Interdependency is perceived as a source of insecurity and strategic vulnerability. With Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the article also stresses, a pillar of post-colonial and post-imperial international relations, uti possidetis, is also being tested and contested. Interactions with the diversity, or 'languages,' of regionalisms are then addressed through the identification of five distinctive threads: colonial and imperial legacies; regionalism as sovereignty or regime enhancement; the EU as a model of holistic and developmental integration; regionalization through defragmentation and connectivity; and regionalization without region-building. The article concludes to the resilience of debates and cognitive representations that were discarded in the aftermath of the cold war.
