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The nation states in the Black Sea area have initiated many co-operative policies but the area also sees numerous tensions between neighboring states. The conflict-co-operation paradox, along with ethnic fragmentation and shared culture, are two of the most salient features of the Black Sea Area. These paradoxes are not the only force in the evolution of the region though. There are also issues such as ethnic and national identity, the failure of democratization, energy and resources, as well as the influence of other powers such as Russia, the EU and the USA. The key questions asked by the authors in this book are: to what extent is there an emerging regionalism in the Black Sea area? Is the Black Sea a region? What are the common interests shared by the former USSR states, the three EU member states neighboring the Black Sea - Bulgaria, Greece and Romania, and a NATO country - Turkey? Are the fault-lines dividing them more pervasive than the incentives for cooperation? Can we speak of a shared identity? The first part of the book places the Black Sea problematique in a wider historical and spatial context. The authors then take a closer look at the region and examine further the structure of the Black Sea area. They offer a perspective on smaller actors with great ambitions, such as Azerbaijan and Romania, and go on to make a comparison between the emerging regionalism in the Black Sea area and regionalisms in other parts of the world.

Annotation, Regionen haben in den Souver nit tsstrategien konkreter Akteure bereits seit dem fruhen 19. Jahrhundert vielf ltigen Ausdruck gefunden; seit dem Ende des Kalten Krieges scheinen sie eine bevorzugte Reaktion auf aktuelle Globalisierungsprozesse darzustellen - vor allem im Globalen S den. Dieser Band f hrt in die fragmentierten Wissensbest nde unterschiedlicher Disziplinen zum Thema Regionen und Regionalisierungsprojekte ein

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Why Rethink Regionalism? -- Rethinking Regional History -- Rethinking Regional Space -- Rethinking Regional Comparison -- Rethinking Regions in Global Perspective -- The Organization of the Book -- 2 Learning from History -- Early Regionalism -- Old Regionalism -- New Regionalism -- Conclusion: Towards Comparative Regionalism -- 3 Learning from Theory -- Neorealist and Intergovernmentalist Approaches -- Functionalist, Liberal and Institutionalist Approaches -- Regional Economic Integration Theory -- Social Constructivist Approaches -- Critical Approaches -- New Regionalism Approach -- Post-Structural and Post-Modern Approaches -- Conclusion -- 4 The Richness of Comparative Regionalism -- Eurocentrism and False Universalism -- Parochialism and Area-Centricity -- Integrating 'Europe' Within Comparative Regionalism -- Conclusion: An Eclectic Comparativist Perspective -- 5 Obviating the Gap Between Formal and Informal Regionalism -- Debates About Formal and Informal Regionalism -- East and Southeast Asia -- Europe -- Africa -- Americas -- Conclusion -- 6 Organizing Regional Space -- Types of Regions -- Institutions, Organizations and Networks -- Types of Regional Cooperation Mechanisms -- Intersecting Regional Spaces -- Conclusion -- 7 Multidimensional Regionalism -- Security Regionalism -- Economic and Development Regionalism -- Social Regionalism -- Environmental Regionalism -- Conclusion -- 8 Civil Society in Regionalism -- Debates About Civil Society in Regionalism -- The Pluralism of Civil Society Regionalism: Evidence from Africa -- Conclusion -- 9 External Actors in Regionalism -- Regional Market-Building from Outside -- Building Ecological Regions from Outside -- Constructing and Deconstructing Security Regions from Outside -- Conclusion.

Regions have been widely expressed in the sovereignty strategies of concrete actors since the early 19th century; Since the end of the Cold War, they seem to be a favored response to current globalization processes, especially in the Global South. This volume introduces the fragmented knowledge of different disciplines on the topic of regions and regionalization projects. - Regionen haben in den Souveränitätsstrategien konkreter Akteure bereits seit dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert vielfältigen Ausdruck gefunden; seit dem Ende des Kalten Krieges scheinen sie eine bevorzugte Reaktion auf aktuelle Globalisierungsprozesse darzustellen – vor allem im Globalen Süden. Dieser Band führt in die fragmentierten Wissensbestände unterschiedlicher Disziplinen zum Thema Regionen und Regionalisierungsprojekte ein.

Birgit M. BAURIDL, From Grafenwoehr to 'Graf': A Transnational American Region in BavariaKatharina GERUND, Sisterhood Is Regional? US-American Women's Activism between the Global and the Local; Amy Doherty MOHR, Over There: Willa Cather's Mobilization of Domestic Spaces in One of Ours -- Rachael PRICE, Blue Northers and Barbed Wire: Modernization and the Village in Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show; Tanja N. AHO, Reality Television, Critical Regionalism, and Low Theory: Paranoid and Reparative Readings of Representations of Class and Race in the US South.

International organizations as new subjects of international law and its institutionalization -- Place and position of international organizations within international law system -- Regionalism and international law -- Old and new regionalism -- Treaty and institutional regionalism -- Regional judicial and non judicial bodies and their importance for proper functioning of regional systems -- Interregionalism -- Relation of regionalism and regional organizations with respect to general international law.

1. East Asia and regionalism : an introduction -- 2. East Asia's regionalisation and new economic geography -- 3. Regionalism in Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia -- 4. East Asia and Asia-Pacific : trans-regionalism -- 5. Finance, money and East Asian regionalism -- 6. Trade diplomacy and East Asian regionalism -- 7. Energy and environmental security -- 8. Regionalism : a conceptual framework of analysis.