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.
Regional Integration and Poverty
1st Edition
By Dirk Willem te Velde, the Overseas Development Institute
March 29, 2017
Relatively little is known about how regional integration affects poverty. Many suggest that increased investment would be one of the benefits of agreeing on regional integration provisions but this has not been put to the empirical test for South-South integration. This volume examines the ...
Redefining the Pacific?: Regionalism Past, Present and Future
1st Edition
By Ian Frazer, Jenny Bryant-Tokalau
February 27, 2017
This comprehensive volume examines the future effectiveness of regional institutions as well as key questions concerning the attempts to overcome ongoing serious problems of security, governance and poor economic performance in the Pacific. What is obvious from this collection is that a new and ...
An East Asian Model for Latin American Success: The New Path
1st Edition
By Anil Hira
February 06, 2017
Latin America is at a uniquely important juncture in its history and the history of development more generally. Neoliberal market-orientated policies are being called into question, growth has been volatile and equity has stayed the same or worsened. In Latin America there is no clear direction for...
Global and Regional Problems: Towards an Interdisciplinary Study
2nd Edition
By Vilho Harle, Pami Aalto
November 28, 2016
Distinctive due to explicit and systematically developed links between international relations (IR) and related disciplines, this book addresses global and regional interactions and the complex policy problems that often characterise this agenda. Such enhanced communication is crucial for improving...
National Solutions to Trans-Border Problems?: The Governance of Security and Risk in a Post-NAFTA North America
1st Edition
Edited
By Isidro Morales
November 28, 2016
'Triggered by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Canada, the United States and Mexico redefined their public policies to facilitate the regionalization of transactions. However, this volume addresses the institutional gaps that still remain focusing mainly on the cross-border ...
Building Regions: The Regionalization of the World Order
1st Edition
By Luk Van Langenhove
November 17, 2016
Regions. How they emerge and how they are dramatically changing the appearance of the present 'world of states' and its related forms of governance from local to global levels is analysed in this monograph. But what are regions? Regions can be small or huge. They can be part of a single state, ...
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 ...