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 ofใ 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.
China and the Global Politics of Regionalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Emilian Kavalski
September 28, 2009
This volume examines the prominent role of China in global politics and the relevance of the 'new regionalism' paradigm to China's international outreach. It provides a comprehensive and critical assessment of China's impact on the global politics of regionalization, offers a novel application of ...
Clash or Cooperation of Civilizations?: Overlapping Integration and Identities
1st Edition
Edited
By Wolfgang Zank
February 16, 2009
For decades North Africa and the Middle East have experienced overlapping identities and integration processes. With the exception of Morocco, the countries of North Africa have supported the re-launch of pan-Africanism in the form of the African Union and its growing institutionalization; but they...
Europe-Asia Interregional Relations: A Decade of ASEM
1st Edition
Edited
By Bart Gaens
June 28, 2008
This book examines the interregional relations of the European Union with East Asia through the prism of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). ASEM currently brings together 16 Asian countries, the 27 member states of the European Union, as well as the ASEAN Secretariat and the European Commission. ...
Beyond Regionalism?: Regional Cooperation, Regionalism and Regionalization in the Middle East
1st Edition
Edited
By Cilja Harders, Matteo Legrenzi
May 28, 2008
Regional cooperation, regionalism and regionalization in the Middle East are usually considered to be weak and rather ceremonial. However, since September 11, 2001, a new regional order is emerging and the impact of geostrategic changes in the international environment has yet to be satisfactorily ...
Cruising in the Global Economy: Profits, Pleasure and Work at Sea
1st Edition
By Christine B.N. Chin
May 22, 2008
The business of cruise tourism in recent years has commanded news media attention especially on issues of environmental pollution, passenger safety and worker rights, yet consumer interest in cruise vacations has not been adversely affected by negative publicity and it continues to grow at an ...
Governing Regional Integration for Development: Monitoring Experiences, Methods and Prospects
1st Edition
Edited
By Philippe De Lombaerde, Antoni Estevadeordal
April 28, 2008
Developing countries have joined the rapidly growing global system of regional trade agreements (RTAs) over the past years. The drive towards regional integration has advanced with the formation of new markets and groups in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Oceania with few ...
Regionalism, Globalisation and International Order: Europe and Southeast Asia
1st Edition
By Jens-Uwe Wunderlich
January 28, 2008
New regionalism and globalization have been prominent themes in academic and political debates since the beginning of the 1990s. Despite the considerable amount of scholarly attention that the new regionalism has received in recent years, its full empirical and theoretical potential has yet to be ...
EU Development Policy and Poverty Reduction: Enhancing Effectiveness
1st Edition
Edited
By Wil Hout
December 28, 2007
This inspiring collection analyzes the contribution of EU development policy to poverty reduction. It focuses on various aspects of the policy - trade, agriculture and food security, and modes of policy making and implementation - and covers three geographical areas in relation to Europe - Latin ...
The EU-Russian Energy Dialogue: Europe's Future Energy Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Pami Aalto
December 28, 2007
EU-Russian energy dialogue represents a policy issue that forces us to take a serious look at several crucial questions related to the present and future of Europe such as: how can the EU area ensure its future energy security when it is running out of its own energy resources and at the same time ...
Globalization and Antiglobalization: Dynamics of Change in the New World Order
1st Edition
Edited
By Henry Veltmeyer
April 18, 2005
Globalization has changed the context for, and the organizational forms of, politics, unleashing forces in support of, and in opposition to, the globalization dynamic. Investigating the dynamics of change and development in two regions of the world economy, Latin America and Asia, this book ...
Asia Pacific and Human Rights: A Global Political Economy Perspective
1st Edition
By Paul Close, David Askew
December 17, 2004
Human rights are acquiring an increasingly prominent role on the world stage. Interest in, concern about and action on human rights are widespread and rising, albeit in a far from globally even, uniform and untroubled fashion. Human rights have generated a booming global industry while having ...
Persistent Permeability?: Regionalism, Localism, and Globalization in the Middle East
1st Edition
By Bassel F. Salloukh, Rex Brynen
July 28, 2004
With the collapse of the Middle East peace process, the 'war on terrorism' and US-led intervention in Iraq, the question of Middle East regionalism(s) has reached a new salience. Will such developments usher in a new wave of transnational politics, as events reverberate through a Middle East made ...