European Union and New Regionalism (3^rd Ed.) Competing Regionalism and Global Governance in a Post-Hegemonic Era New Regionalisms Series

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 competing models of regional cooperation within a multipolar world and the role of European Union. This new edition offers: - A comparative analysis of regional cooperation and of both US-centred and EU-centred interregionalism. - A fresh exploration of key issues of regionalism versus globalization and the potential for world economic and political governance through regional cooperation, notably in hard times. - A vigorous response to conventional wisdom on the controversial EU international identity - An appendix on regional and interregional organizations. - A key resource for postgraduate or undergraduate study and research of international relations, European integration studies, comparative politics and international political economy. Taking into account both the expanded European Union and regional cooperation in every continent, this multidisciplinary volume comprises contributions from established scholars in the field: A. Gamble, P. Padoan, G. Joffé, G. Therborn, Th. Meyer, R. Higgott, B. Hettne / F. Ponjaert, F. Soederbaum, Ch. Deblock, K. Eliassen / A. Arnottir, S. Keukeleire / I. Petrova, S. Santander and M. Telò (editor).

Introduction: Globalization, New Regionalism and the Role of the European Union; I: Theoretical Perspectives; 1: Regional Blocs, World Order and the New Medievalism; 2: The Political Economy of New Regionalism and World Governance; 3: Cultural Difference, Regionalization and Globalization; 4: Alternative Models of Regional Cooperation? The Limits of Regional Institutionalisation in East Asia; 5: Interregionalism and World Order: The Diverging EU and US Models; II: Comparative Analysis of Regional Groupings; 6: Between Trade Regionalization and Various Paths towards Deeper Cooperation; 7: NAFTA and United States Regional Trade Policy; 8: Competing Latin American Regionalisms in a Changing World; 9: African Regionalism and EU-African Interregionalism; 10: Southeast Asian and European Integration Compared; III: European Union as a New Civilian Power in the Making; 11: The European Union and the Challenges of the Near Abroad; 12: The European Union, the Eastern Neighbourhood and Russia: Competing Regionalisms; 13: Regionalism, the European Union and the Arab Awakening; 14: Europe: Trading Power, American Hunting Dog, or the World's Scandinavia?; IV: Reconsiderations; 15: European Union, Regionalism, New Multilateralism: Three Scenarios

Mario Telò is Jean Monnet professor of International Relations at Université Libre de Bruxelles and teaches EU institutions at LUISS, Rome.