1st Edition
The Multidimensionality of Regions in World Politics
Introduction
Paul J. Kohlenberg and Nadine Godehardt
Part I: Historicity of Regions in Political Geography and International Relations
1. From Bounded Spaces to Relational Social Constructs: Conceptualization of the Region in Geography
Anssi Paasi
2. Regionality and Globality: Two Sides of the Same Narrative
Karoline Postel-Vinay
3. Regions in the System of World Politics
Mathias Albert
Part II: The Reconfiguration of "Regions" through Bordering/Ordering, Security Discourses and Modes of Crises
4. The Historical and Social Embeddedness of the Post-Ottoman Space in World Society
Jan Busse
5. Security Politics and the "Remaking" of West Africa by the European Union: From Bounded to Fuzzy Regions
Elisa Lopez Lucia
6. The Persistence of the "Middle East" as a Geopolitical Invention of Security: "Denial of Coevalness"
Pinar Bilgin
7. Territorial Crises, States and Entitlement at the United Nations Security Council: Ukraine 2014-2018
Juliet J. Fall and Carinne Domingos
Part III: Regions and Meta-Geographies to Come
8. A "Reliably Frozen Region"? Imagining and Materializing Arctic Regionalism
Klaus Dodds and Chih Yuan Woon
9. Cores, Continents and Regions of Equivalence? The Multidimensionality of Eurasian Meta-geography in Russian State Discourse
Aglaya Snetkov and Stephen Aris
10. China’s Global Connectivity Politics: A Meta-Geography in the Making
Nadine Godehardt and Paul J. Kohlenberg
Conclusion
Nadine Godehardt and Paul J. Kohlenberg
Biography
Paul J. Kohlenberg is Chief Representative of the Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung Beijing Representative Office, China.
Nadine Godehardt is the Deputy Head of the Research Division Asia at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Germany.
