New Regionalisms Series
About the Book Series
The New Regionalisms series presents innovative analyses of a range of novel regional relations & institutions. Going beyond formal, interstate organisations, this interdisciplinary Series builds on over two decades of the pioneering International Political Economy of New Regionalisms series, also edited by Professor Timothy M. Shaw.
New Regionalisms is creative & cosmopolitan, reflecting enquiries from & about the global South & North. It reinforces ongoing networks of analysts in both academia & think-tanks as well as international institutions concerned with micro-, meso- & macro-level regionalisms in the third decade of the 21st century & beyond.
Multipolarization, South-South Cooperation and the Rise of Post-Hegemonic Governance
1st Edition
By Efe Can Gürcan
June 14, 2022
The crisis of Northern capitalism and failure of hegemonic global governance have created a facilitative environment for post-hegemonic initiatives promoting South–South cooperation. Major Southern countries – especially the BRICS – have taken the lead in pushing for alternative governance ...
Social Standards in EU and US Trade Agreements
1st Edition
By Evgeny Postnikov
June 13, 2022
This book examines the causes and consequences of social standards in US and EU preferential trade agreements (PTAs). PTAs are the new reality of the global trading system. Pursued by both developed and developing countries, they increasingly incorporate labor and environmental issues to prevent a ...
Expanding Perspectives on Human Rights in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By M. Raymond Izarali, Oliver Masakure, Bonny Ibhawoh
December 13, 2021
This book draws attention to emerging issues around the rights of minorities, marginalized groups, and persons in Africa. It explores the gaps between human rights provisions and conditions, showing that although international human rights principles have been embraced in the continent, various ...
Governing Complexity in the Arctic Region
1st Edition
By Mathieu Landriault, Andrew Chater, Elana Wilson Rowe, P. Whitney Lackenbauer
December 13, 2021
This book examines emerging forms of governance in the Arctic region, exploring how different types of state and non-state actors promote and support rules and standards.The authors argue that confining our understandings of Arctic governance to Arctic states and a focus on the Arctic Council as ...
The Political Economy of New Regionalisms in the Pacific Rim
1st Edition
Edited
By José Briceño-Ruiz, Philippe De Lombaerde
December 13, 2021
Combining an analysis of regionalism from a systemic view with a domestic political-economy analysis, this book sheds light on the new dynamics and emerging configurations of regionalisms and interregionalisms in the post-Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Donald Trump’s presidency has transformed ...
Civil Society Regionalization in Southern Africa: The Cases of Trade and HIV/AIDS
1st Edition
By Andréas Godsäter
September 30, 2021
This book investigates civil society regionalization in Southern Africa. The point of departure is the study of 'new regionalism', which refers to the wave of regional integration globally since the 1980s. However, whilst the current regionalism studies undoubtedly contributes to a deeper ...
From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals: Rethinking African Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Kobena T. Hanson, Korbla P. Puplampu, Timothy M. Shaw
June 30, 2021
Millennium development goals (MDGs) and sustainable development goals (SDGs) have significant implications for global development, in particular for African countries. This book seeks to assist Africa’s policy makers and political leaders, MNCs and NGOs, plus its increasingly heterogeneous media ...
Global Economic Governance and Human Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Simone Raudino, Arlo Poletti
June 30, 2021
Traditional understandings of economic development in low- and mid-income countries have largely been influenced by the economic narrative of Western Official Development Assistance (ODA). Within this framework, compliance with macroeconomic orthodoxy and early integration in Global Economic ...
Governing Natural Resources for Africa’s Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Hany Besada
June 30, 2021
Bringing together some of the world’s leading thinkers and policy experts in the area of natural resource governance and management in Africa, this volume addresses the most critical policy issues affecting the continent’s ability to manage and govern its precious resources. The narrative of the ...
Inclusive Trade in Africa: The African Continental Free Trade Area in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By David Luke, Jamie Macleod
June 30, 2021
Providing the first book-length analysis of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), this volume asks how can it be ensured that the AfCFTA is effectively implemented to deliver inclusive trade in Africa.The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will cover an African market of 1.2 ...
Pan-Caribbean Integration: Beyond CARICOM
1st Edition
Edited
By Patsy Lewis, Terri-Ann Gilbert-Roberts, Jessica Byron
June 30, 2021
A critical part of the history of regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean is to be found in the widening of the economic and functional relationships among the English-speaking Caribbean to embrace other countries in the Greater Caribbean.Bringing together a range of international experts to...
Post-Colonial Trajectories in the Caribbean: The Three Guianas
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosemarijn Hoefte, Matthew L. Bishop, Peter Clegg
June 30, 2021
This book compares and contrasts the contemporary development experience of neighbouring, geographically similar countries with an analogous history of exploitation but by three different European colonisers. Studying the so-called ‘Three Guianas’ (Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) offers a ...