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Cover -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword – Robert O. Keohane -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction International Relations Theory: A European Perspective? -- 1 Origins of the International Relations Theories and the Emerging Realist Paradigm -- 2 Systemic Approaches in the United States -- 3 International Political Economy -- 4 The Influence of K. Marx on International Relations -- 5 Beyond Realism and Neo-realism -- 6 Institutionalist Theories -- 7 A Post-sovereign World? -- 8 Constructivist Approaches -- 9 Foreign Policy Analysis and the Impact of Domestic Factors -- 10 The Contribution of European Studies to the Renewal of International Relations Theory -- Conclusions -- Appendix – Regional, Interregional and Global Arrangements and Organizations -- Planisphères

Brexit confirms that the EU is not a super-state in the making but rather an advanced regional organization. This book bridges the gap between EU studies and international relations by providing a student-friendly presentation of regional, multidimensional cooperation among neighbouring states and societies, its four epochs and relevant variations and similarities across five continents, its interplay with globalization, and the changing post-hegemonic and post-Cold War international order. This text secondly focuses on the question of regionalism in hard times: whether the global financial crisis and multipolar power politics are leading to more competitive and political forms of instrumental regionalism and interregionalism in Europe, East-Asia and the Americas. It does this by addressing the political and strategic dimensions of changing regional/interregional arrangements and their current and potential impact on global governance, notably on trade and security challenges.

Cover -- Detailed Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword by Andrew Gamble -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. What Conditions to Multilateralise the twenty-first century's Multipolarity? -- 2. Conceptual Framework, Disciplinary Approaches, Multilateral Institutions and Global Challenges -- 3. A Gradual Transformation of the Westphalian Paradigm -- 4. Why a Textbook? -- Part I. Towards a Common Language: Critically Exploring Key Concepts -- 1 Globalisation: Trends, Limits, and Controversies -- Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptualisation of Globalisation -- 3. Degrees and Patterns of Globalisation -- 4. Critical Issues -- 5. Globalisation and Europe -- 6. Conclusion -- Test Questions -- Further Reading -- 2 The Three Historical Epochs of Multilateralism -- Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Multipolarity as a Framework for the Early Multilateral Cooperation -- 3. The US-Led Multilateralism -- 4. The End of Bipolarity: Which Multilateralism in a Post-Hegemonic Era? -- 5. Conclusion -- Test Questions -- Further Reading -- 3 Which Multipolarity? Power and World Order -- Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Polarity Debate: Power Structure and International Stability -- 3. The Multipolarism Inquiry: Evolving and Contending Conceptualisation -- 4. A Multipolar World from the Chinese Perspective -- 5. Conclusion -- Test Questions -- Further Reading -- 4 Peculiarities of the European Union's External Action -- Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The EU's International Influence -- 3. Complexity of the EU's External Decision-Making Mechanisms -- 4. Conclusion -- Test Questions -- Further Reading -- Part II. The State of Art: Disciplinary Approaches to Global Governance -- 5 Comparative Institutionalisms -- Summary -- 1. Introduction.

Stemming from an international and multidisciplinary network of leading specialists, this best-selling text is fully updated with new chapter additions. With the first edition prepared at the end of the last century and the second edition adding inter-regional relations, this new edition focuses on competing models of regional cooperation within a multipolar world and the role of the European Union.

This student-friendly textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to globalization studies and the European Union within a multipolar world. It provides its readers with critical analysis of the key concepts of multilateral global and regional governance and Europe's role in the world; and this in an accessible and intelligible fashion. This volume collects contributions by eminent scholars from world class universities from five different continents. As such, this unique exercise in transnational multi-disciplinary cooperation, provides extensive coverage of the main issues pertaining to mul.

Part 1. State and multilateralism: systemic change, diversities and challenges -- State and Multilateralism: History and Perspectives / Mario Telo -- The Changing World Order: From the Opening of the Berlin Wall to the Financial Crash / Andrew Gamble -- Economic Multilateralism: A Search for Legitimacy and Coherence in the Early Twenty-first Century / Richard Higgott -- International Responsibility, Multilateralism, and China's Foreign Policy / Chen Zhimin -- Part 2. Globalization and the Transformation of the State: The Theoretical Debate -- The State and Political Economic Change: Beyond Rational Choice and Historical Institutionalism to Discursive Institutionalism / Vivien A. Schmidt -- Globalization, Regionalization and Stateness / Thomas Meyer -- The Rise of Executive Sovereignty in the Era of Globalization / Andreas Vasilache -- Conclusions: State and New Multilateralism Facing an Unprecedented Multipolar World / Mario Telo

This article draws the reader's attention on the increasing relevance of the European Council both within the European construction process and for comparative studies. Firstly, it shows that a long durée approach brings evidences that the European Council represents the legacy of centuries of international multilateral cooperation. Since the 'Concert of Europe' a shared diplomatic culture emerged, based on self-restraint, moderation, conflict prevention and settlement, although this was increasingly undermined by soft institutionalisation, hierarchies and rigid alliances. 1945 was a turning point, allowing for enhanced supranational institutionalization, and sovereignty sharing or pooling that gave rise to the foundation of the European communities in 1950 and 1957. However, since 1974, the SEA and the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, started a gradual process of integration of the European Council ‒ as the politically leading body ‒ within a mixed and sophisticated institutional system, merging intergovernmental and supranational rules and procedures.
Secondly, in the post-Cold War international context, the European Council is the most relevant comparative issue between the EU and regional organisations developing in other continents. Similarities and diversities are analysed according to the 'new regionalist' paradigm. Historical institutionalism proves to be a useful theoretical framework to act as a bridge between EU studies and comparative regional research.