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Contributed articles presented at the Conference on the 'Political Economy of Maritime Africa in the Indian Ocean Region', jointly organized by Indian Ocean RIM Association and Indian Ocean Research Group, held at Nairobi in March 2014

The main purpose of this paper is to outline a preliminary framework for the analysis of the nature of geopolitical change in relation to interactions among globalization, the state, & regionalism for the Asia-Pacific region. Overall, it is clear that the combination of globalization with the "collapse" of bipolarity has ensured that regionalism & regionalization will become increasingly important in world politics. There is a need for postrealist spatial structures & policies to cope with all of these outcomes, & regionalism can potentially play an important "intermediary" role in which the reestablishment of security & stability can be facilitated. The emergence of "new regionalism" in the Asia-Pacific is potentially well suited to these requirements, although its structure & function are highly contested as the paper demonstrates. 3 Tables, 2 Figures. Adapted from the source document.