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.
Africa in the Age of Globalisation: Perceptions, Misperceptions and Realities
1st Edition
By Edward Shizha, Lamine Diallo
March 04, 2016
This is a collection of bold and visionary scholarship that reveals an insightful exposition of re-visioning African development from African perspectives. It provides educators, policy makers, social workers, non-governmental agencies, and development agencies with an interdisciplinary conceptual ...
Contemporary Regional Development in Africa
1st Edition
By Kobena T. Hanson
March 04, 2016
Contemporary Regional Development in Africa interrogates well-known concerns in the areas of regionalism and economic integration in contemporary Africa, while offering an added uniqueness by highlighting the capacity imperatives of the issues, and proposing critical policy guideposts. The volume ...
The Eastern Mediterranean in Transition: Multipolarity, Politics and Power
1st Edition
By Spyridon N. Litsas, Aristotle Tziampiris
April 08, 2015
The wider region of the Eastern Mediterranean is in transition. What is being evinced is a situation of continuous volatility, centering on developments such as the ’Arab Spring,’ the Greek sovereign debt crisis, Islamic terrorism, the continuation of deadlock over the Cypriot and Palestinian ...
Limits to Regional Integration
1st Edition
By Søren Dosenrode
March 20, 2015
Regionalization in general and regional integration in particular have taken place at a growing pace since the end of the Cold War, when states were set free from various security overlays. Regional integration is ’logical’ as it is supposed to advance wealth and peace. Still, the picture is far ...
A New Scramble for Africa?: The Rush for Energy Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa
1st Edition
By Sören Scholvin
February 11, 2015
Global energy consumption will increase rapidly in the next decades. The discrepancy between demand and supply is worrisome within the old and new cores of the world-economy. Sub-Saharan Africa meanwhile possesses vast potential for energy resources to be further exploited. Whilst the Global North ...
Converging Regions: Global Perspectives on Asia and the Middle East
1st Edition
By Nele Lenze, Charlotte Schriwer
November 19, 2014
For over a millennium, Asia and the Middle East have been closely connected through maritime activities and trade, a flourishing relationship that has given rise to new and thriving societies across the Indian Ocean region and Arabia. In recent times, with the global political and economic power ...
The Geopolitics of Regional Power: Geography, Economics and Politics in Southern Africa
1st Edition
By Sören Scholvin
November 14, 2014
In the last two decades, various states from the Global South have emerged as important players in international relations. Most popular among them is China. Brazil, India and South Africa have also taken essential roles in global and regional politics. Compared to traditional great powers, they ...
Terror and Insurgency in the Sahara-Sahel Region: Corruption, Contraband, Jihad and the Mali War of 2012-2013
1st Edition
By Stephen A. Harmon
October 28, 2014
Harmon focuses on terrorism and insurgency in the lawless expanse of the Sahara Desert and the adjacent, transitional Sahel zone, plus the broader meta-region that includes countries such as Algeria, Mali, and Nigeria, and to a lesser extent, Niger and Mauritania. Covering such issues as Islamist ...
European Union and New Regionalism: Competing Regionalism and Global Governance in a Post-Hegemonic Era
3rd Edition
By Mario Telò
August 19, 2014
Stemming from an international and multidisciplinary network of leading specialists, this best-selling text is fully updated with new chapter additions. With the first edition prepared at the end of the last century and the second edition adding inter-regional relations, this new edition focuses on...
China's Diplomacy in Eastern and Southern Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Seifudein Adem
November 28, 2013
In contemporary discourse on China-Africa relations, there are, on the one hand, the Sino-pessimists who see China as a giant vacuum-cleaner, sucking up Africa’s resources in order to fuel its own rapid industrialization, and destroying Africa’s development potential in the process. On the other ...
Comparative Regionalisms for Development in the 21st Century: Insights from the Global South
1st Edition
By Timothy M. Shaw, Emmanuel Fanta
September 18, 2013
The global 'financial' crisis at the turn of the decade has accelerated changes in the relative standing of major regions. As both the US and Eurozone economies have confronted a series of setbacks and struggles to find their second breath, so Asia, Latin America and even Africa have picked up the ...
The New Democracy Wars: The Politics of North American Democracy Promotion in the Americas
1st Edition
By Neil A. Burron
December 28, 2012
Burron provides a critical analysis of Canadian and US democracy promotion in the Americas. He concentrates on Haiti, Peru, and Bolivia in particular but situates them within a larger analysis of Canadian and US foreign policy - bilateral and regional - in the areas of trade, investment, diplomacy...