Shaw, Timothy M. (Ed.)

Ashgate research companion to regionalisms edited by Timothy M. Shaw, J. Andrew Grant and Scarlett Cornelissen. - Burlington : Ashgate, 2011. - 404 p.

Table of Contents:
Part I.
Chapter 1. Introduction and overview: the study of new regionalism(s) at the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century / Timothy M. Shaw, J. Andrew Grant, and Scarlett Cornelissen
Chapter 2. Comparing regionalisms: methodological aspects and considerations / Philippe De Lombaerde
Chapter 3. Formal and informal regionalism / Fredrik Söderbaum
Chapter 4. The rise of iInterregionalisms : the case of the European Union's relations with East Asia / Bart Gaens
Part II.
Chapter 5. The European Union: a new form of governance / Alberta Sbragia
Chapter 6. Regionalism in flux : politics, economics, and security in the North American region / Laura Macdonald
Chapter 7. Norms, identity, and divergent paths toward regional order in South and Southeast Asia: ASEAN and SAARC in comparative perspective / Charan Rainford
Chapter 8. China and economic regionalism in East Asia / Kevin G. Cai
Chapter 9. Hemispheric regionalism in the Americas / Gordon Mace and Dominic Migneault
Chapter 10. The changing context of regionalism and regionalisation in the Americas : Mercosur and beyond / Marc Schelhase
Chapter 11. The evolution of the African Union Commission and Africrats : drivers of African regionalisms / Thomas Kwasi Tieku
Chapter 12. The 'new' ECOWAS : implications for the study of regional integration / Okechukwu C. Iheduru
Chapter 13. Regional organisation, regional arena : the SADC in Southern Africa / Ulrike Lorenz and Scarlett Cornelissen
Part III.
Chapter 14. Oceania : a critical regionalism challenging the foreign definition of Pacific identities in pursuit of decolonised destinies / Kate Stone
Chapter 15. Middle East regionalisms : can an institution bridge geo-culture to geo-economics? / Bahgat Korany
Chapter 16. Beyond geography : BRIC/SAM and the new contours of regionalism / Agata Antkiewicz and Andrew F. Cooper
Chapter 17. Commonwealths and regionalisms in the first quarter of the twenty-first century / Timothy M. Shaw
Chapter 18. Spatial development initiatives : two case studies from Southern Africa / Ian C. Taylor
Chapter 19. The transnational gang : challenging the conventional narrative / Robert Muggah
Chapter 20. Transfrontier conservation and the spaces of regionalisms / Maano Ramutsindela
Chapter 21. New regionalisms, micro-regionalisms, and the migration-conflict nexus : evidence from natural resource sectors in West Africa / J. Andrew Grant, Matthew I. Mitchell, and Frank K. Nyame.
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Regionalism.
Interregionalism.
International Economic Integration.

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