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This edited book brings a new analytical angle to the study of
comparative regionalism by focussing on the unintended consequences
of interregional relations. The book satisfies the need to go
beyond the consideration of the success or failure of international
policies. It sheds light on complex interactions involving multiple
actors, individual and institutional, driven by various
representations, interests and strategies, and which often result
in unintended consequences that powerfully affect the
socio-political context in which they unfold. By providing a new
conceptual framework to understand how interregionalism brings
about social change, the book examines the effects on the
individual and institutional actors of interregional relations, and
the effects on the social structures that constitute
interregionalism. It also examines interregionalism's
transformational character for structures of regional and
international governance, as well as societies. This book will be
of key interest to scholars and students in the fields of
comparative regionalism, interregionalism, EU studies,
international and regional organisations, global governance and
more broadly to international relations, international politics and
(comparative) area studies.
This book addresses a major gap in the longstanding research on
regional organisations: how do their finances work and what do they
reveal about the region-building process? It brings together an
empirically rich collection of chapters written by experts of
regional organisations in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Based on
the insights on thirteen regional organisations as well as two
chapters dedicated to the influence of external funders, the
editors develop typologies to cluster regional organisations
according to their financial characteristics: the size of budgets,
the sources of funding and the criteria to calculate contributions.
Through analysing the process of budgeting and resourcing, the book
sheds light on the different nature and functioning of these
organisations existing outside of the Global North and puts a
specific emphasis on regional organisations in the area of security
in Africa and the Global South. It provides explanations to why
members pay or do not pay and how budgeting works, and it deals
with data availability, the role of donors, overlapping
regionalism, cultural transfers between regional organisations and
the impact on regional actorness. This volume will be of key
interest to scholars and students of African studies and politics,
the Global South, the finances of international organisations,
comparative regionalism, international political economy and
international relations.
This edited book brings a new analytical angle to the study of
comparative regionalism by focussing on the unintended consequences
of interregional relations. The book satisfies the need to go
beyond the consideration of the success or failure of international
policies. It sheds light on complex interactions involving multiple
actors, individual and institutional, driven by various
representations, interests and strategies, and which often result
in unintended consequences that powerfully affect the
socio-political context in which they unfold. By providing a new
conceptual framework to understand how interregionalism brings
about social change, the book examines the effects on the
individual and institutional actors of interregional relations, and
the effects on the social structures that constitute
interregionalism. It also examines interregionalism's
transformational character for structures of regional and
international governance, as well as societies. This book will be
of key interest to scholars and students in the fields of
comparative regionalism, interregionalism, EU studies,
international and regional organisations, global governance and
more broadly to international relations, international politics and
(comparative) area studies.
This edited volume approaches regionalism as one potential pattern
in a changing global order. Since the end of the Cold War,
different forms of territorialization have emerged and we are
confronted with an increasing number and variety of actors that are
establishing regional projects. This volume offers an innovative
contribution to the study of this new complexity by exploring
constellations of regional actors, spatial scales and imaginations
beyond state-centred perspectives as well as on multiple, often
overlapping levels. The chapters analyse the emergence,
trajectories and outcomes of regionalisms from the perspective of
the Global South, specifically concentrating on regional projects
in Latin America and Africa, but also in the Asia-Pacific. They
attempt to identify the specific conditions and junctures of
different forms of region-making in their external (global) and
internal (local/national) dimensions. The volume also places
special emphasis on interactions, spatial entanglements and
comparisons between regionalisms in different parts of the world.
By expanding beyond the perspective of North-South transfers, this
book seeks to better understand the dynamics and diversity of
interregional interactions. This volume will appeal to scholars of
global studies, international political economy, international
relations, human geography, and development studies, as well as
area studies specialists who focus on Latin America and Africa.
This edited volume approaches regionalism as one potential pattern
in a changing global order. Since the end of the Cold War,
different forms of territorialization have emerged and we are
confronted with an increasing number and variety of actors that are
establishing regional projects. This volume offers an innovative
contribution to the study of this new complexity by exploring
constellations of regional actors, spatial scales and imaginations
beyond state-centred perspectives as well as on multiple, often
overlapping levels. The chapters analyse the emergence,
trajectories and outcomes of regionalisms from the perspective of
the Global South, specifically concentrating on regional projects
in Latin America and Africa, but also in the Asia-Pacific. They
attempt to identify the specific conditions and junctures of
different forms of region-making in their external (global) and
internal (local/national) dimensions. The volume also places
special emphasis on interactions, spatial entanglements and
comparisons between regionalisms in different parts of the world.
By expanding beyond the perspective of North-South transfers, this
book seeks to better understand the dynamics and diversity of
interregional interactions. This volume will appeal to scholars of
global studies, international political economy, international
relations, human geography, and development studies, as well as
area studies specialists who focus on Latin America and Africa.
This book addresses a major gap in the longstanding research on
regional organisations: how do their finances work and what do they
reveal about the region-building process? It brings together an
empirically rich collection of chapters written by experts of
regional organisations in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Based on
the insights on thirteen regional organisations as well as two
chapters dedicated to the influence of external funders, the
editors develop typologies to cluster regional organisations
according to their financial characteristics: the size of budgets,
the sources of funding and the criteria to calculate contributions.
Through analysing the process of budgeting and resourcing, the book
sheds light on the different nature and functioning of these
organisations existing outside of the Global North and puts a
specific emphasis on regional organisations in the area of security
in Africa and the Global South. It provides explanations to why
members pay or do not pay and how budgeting works, and it deals
with data availability, the role of donors, overlapping
regionalism, cultural transfers between regional organisations and
the impact on regional actorness. This volume will be of key
interest to scholars and students of African studies and politics,
the Global South, the finances of international organisations,
comparative regionalism, international political economy and
international relations.
This book focuses on interregional relations across the Atlantic
and the possible evolution of a new, distinctive Atlantic space for
international relations. It provides a comprehensive insight into
the overlapping linkages of interregionalism in the wider Atlantic
space. Additionally, it raises the question of relevance, currently
the main question in this field of research: Is interregionalism
important because it brings about something new that really matters
or is it simply a (perhaps unavoidable) by-product of regionalism?
The book conducts an analysis of six interregional relations
criss-crossing the Atlantic space, accounting for the multitude of
interregional connections within a potential Atlantic macro region
and analysing the differences, conflicts and convergences between
regional organizations. It engages with the issue of agency in
interregional relations, and argues that interregional processes
and agendas are always driven and constructed by certain actors for
certain purposes.
Broadening the Debate on EU-Africa Relations is designed to expand
the scope of our understanding of the multi-layered relationship
between the European Union and African political actors in order to
shape both the academic and policy level discourse. The focus on
chapters highlighting an African perspective offers an opportunity
to redress an imbalance in scholarship, and also represents an
effort to reinvigorate the EU-Africa discourse. The contributors
scrutinise hitherto underexplored areas, from agricultural
cooperation to sanctions to scientific collaboration, as new
insights linger in the less visible margins of the relationship.
Jointly, they push in the same direction, to broaden the debate on
how subjects are approached in a field of study that has
one-sidedly focus on the intended actions of the EU. To that end,
three dimensions represent the common thread of the book: how to
recalibrate African and European perspectives, how to proceed on an
assumption of mutual influence rather than unidirectionality, and
how to highlight the intertwined nature of the different drivers of
the relationship. Recalibrating African and European perspectives
by focusing on elements of reciprocity within the broad array of
interregional interactions, Broadening the Debate on EU-Africa
Relations will be of great interest to scholars of African Studies,
African IR, and the EU. The chapters were originally published as a
special issue of the South African Journal of International
Affairs.
This book introduces the novel concept of fringe regionalism to the
field of international studies. It examines how regions are
practiced by peripheral borderlands rather than centrally planned,
thus offering new avenues for researching regionalism beyond the
conventional focus on formal intergovernmental organisations. Two
in depth case studies, the Sahara and the Caucasus, provide the
real-life application of the concept and the authors use the
tensions between competing demarcations of the region, the regional
nature of extra-legal economies and the narratives of cross-border
identities to steer their empirical approach. Through thorough
analysis, the volume applies the concept of fringe regionalism to
regions previously neglected by conventional approaches.
This book addresses the question of how the American continent
engages with various forms of interregionalism, including how
different regions within the Americas deal with other regions of
the world as well as how they relate among themselves. The presence
of different political, economic, and cultural sub-regions within
the Americas makes the continent a perfect setting to explore
differences and commonalities in the western hemisphere's
relationship with other regions across the globe. Interregionalism
and the Americas tackles three unifying questions. First, what type
and understanding of interregionalism characterize the Americas'
way to interregionalism, if any? Second, is summitry ultimately the
major visible feature of interregionalism in the Americas and
beyond? Third, is there anything typical or characteristic in the
way in which the Americas engage with interregionalism? This book
contributes both to the theoretical debates about interergionalism
and to the empirical understanding of the phenomenon and makes a
compelling case to strengthen the inter-American system and to
advance a "trilateral interregionalism" mechanism between North
America, Latin America, and Europe to stand up for their common
values, norms, and preferred international order.
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