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.
Roads to Regionalism: Genesis, Design, and Effects of Regional Organizations
1st Edition
By Tanja A. Börzel, Lukas Goltermann, Kai Striebinger
November 17, 2016
Over the past few decades states all around the globe have intensified institutionalized cooperation at the regional level. To deepen our understanding of state-led regionalism, the authors use an analytical framework comprising four main strands. First, they describe and explain the genesis and ...
Asymmetric Trade Negotiations
1st Edition
By Sanoussi Bilal, Philippe De Lombaerde
November 15, 2016
The slow pace of the Doha Round has boosted the proliferation of regional and bilateral trade agreements. Paradoxically, the more powerful actors, the US and the European Union, who at the same time have benefited the most from the multilateral system, have also been engaged in bilateral and ...
New Regionalism or No Regionalism?: Emerging Regionalism in the Black Sea Area
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruxandra Ivan
November 15, 2016
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. ...
Our North America: Social and Political Issues beyond NAFTA
1st Edition
Edited
By Julián Castro-Rea
November 15, 2016
What we call "North America" today is a human space that has been constructed over the centuries, perceived from time immemorial by its original inhabitants as a unified whole, and named Turtle Island. What is North America today? Is it more than the sum of its parts? Does it qualify as a ...
The EU and the Eurozone Crisis: Policy Challenges and Strategic Choices
1st Edition
By Finn Laursen
November 15, 2016
The global financial crisis, which started in the United States in 2007, spread to Europe in 2009. It especially hit Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain, countries which have introduced the single currency, the euro. These eurozone countries no longer have monetary policy autonomy, so they ...
The Rise of the Networking Region: The Challenges of Regional Collaboration in a Globalized World
1st Edition
By Are Vegard Haug, Harald Baldersheim
November 15, 2016
How regions and cities adapt to a Network Society and a globalized environment, the policies they pursue and how structures of governance are transformed in the pursuit of those policies are major themes in this volume. These issues are addressed with specific reference to the Nordic regions of ...
China-Africa Relations in an Era of Great Transformations
1st Edition
By Li Xing, Abdulkadir Osman Farah
November 10, 2016
This collection juxtaposes a variety of approaches about China and Africa, and their interrelations seeking to go beyond early, simplistic formulations. Perspectives informed by Polanyi advance nuanced analysis of varieties of capitalisms and double-movements. It seeks to put contemporary ...
Latin America's Quest for Globalization: The Role of Spanish Firms
1st Edition
By Félix E. Martín, Pablo Toral
November 10, 2016
Investments by Spanish firms in Latin America have grown since the early 1990s by taking over many of the state-owned firms put out to tender. Second only to the United States, these investments make Spain one of the largest markets of foreign direct investment for Latin America. This ...
Mapping Agency: Comparing Regionalisms in Africa
1st Edition
By Ulrike Lorenz-Carl, Martin Rempe
November 10, 2016
Despite regionalism having developed into a global phenomenon, the European Union (EU) is still more often than not presented as the ’role-model of regionalism’ whose institutional designs and norms are adopted by other regional actors and organizations as part of a rather passive ’downloading ...
New Perspectives on Globalization and Antiglobalization: Prospects for a New World Order?
1st Edition
Edited
By Henry Veltmeyer
November 10, 2016
This completely revised and updated sequel to Globalization and Antiglobalization advances our understanding of the dynamics of neoliberal globalization and draws our attention towards efforts to construct 'another world' beyond neoliberalism. To advance our understanding of these forces and ...
Reconfiguring Global Climate Governance in North America: A Transregional Approach
1st Edition
By Marcela López-Vallejo
October 26, 2016
Global climate governance has presented problems that have led to failures, yet it has also opened the door to new transregional governance schemes, especially in North America. This book introduces an environmental dimension into the concept of governance. Almost fifteen years after the climate ...
Regionalism and Regional Security in South Asia: The Role of SAARC
1st Edition
By Zahid Shahab Ahmed
October 19, 2016
Zahid Shahab Ahmed evaluates the progress of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). This study goes beyond economic integration to present a detailed appraisal of cooperation under the overarching themes of economic cooperation, environmental security, human welfare, and ...