Globalizing Regionalism and International Relations

Description

Building on the recent initiative to truly globalise the field of International Relations, this book provides an innovative interrogation of regionalism. The book applies a globalising framework to the study of regional worlds in order to move beyond the traditional conception of regionalism, which views regions as competing blocs dominated by great powers. Bringing together a wide range of case studies, the book shows that regions are instead dynamic configurations of social and political identities in which a variety of actors, including the less powerful, interact and partake in regionalisation processes and have done so through centuries.

Beatrix Futak-Campbell is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Leiden University and Marie Curie Fellow at Aberystwyth University.

"This book represents a timely and refreshing approach to the study of regionalism in International Relations. It offers a rich and diverse perspective on the complex ways in which regionalism figures in a changing global order." Amitav Acharya, American University, Washington DC