1st Edition
The New Politics of Regionalism Perspectives from Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific
Foreword
1 Introduction – The challenge of emerging regionalisms outside of Europe
[Antje Dietze, Ulf Engel, Frank Mattheis, Thomas Plötze and Heidrun Zinecker]
Part 1: Logics and purposes of region-building
2 Towards modular regionalism: The proliferation of Latin American cooperation
[Gian Luca Gardini]
3 Towards bifurcated regionalism: The production of regional overlaps in Central Africa
[Frank Mattheis]
4 "Region in the making"? Security narratives and the negotiation of region in Central America
[Thomas Plötze]
5 Latin America and the building of regional public goods
[Clarissa Dri]
Part 2: Trajectories and entanglements of regionalisms in a global order
6 Is interregional AU-ASEAN diffusion in the South barren?
[Stephen Kingah and Charles Akong]
7 Regionalism in the Southwest Pacific: Globalization, Europe and the Trans-Tasman Single Economic Market
[John Leslie]
8 Persistence of regionalism in the face of economic and financial crisis? Institution-building in ASEAN, MERCOSUR and the EU
[Jens-Uwe Wunderlich]
Part 3: Region-building beyond the state
9 Modes of regional governance in Africa
[Ian Taylor and Fredrik Söderbaum]
10 The Kimberley Process on conflict diamonds, new regionalisms and the dynamics of (de/re)territorialization
[J. Andrew Grant]
11 Regionalism of armed groups and movements in Central Africa
[Angela Meyer and Gregor Giersch]
12 Navigating sovereign territoriality: The logic of regionalism in international police cooperation
[Nicholas Dietrich]
13 Conclusions
[Antje Dietze, Ulf Engel, Frank Mattheis, Thomas Plötze and Heidrun Zinecker]
Bibliography
Biography
Ulf Engel is professor at the Institute of African Studies and the Global and European Studies Institute at the University of Leipzig, Germany.
Heidrun Zinecker is full professor and Chair for International Relations at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Leipzig, Germany.
Frank Mattheis is a senior research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn) at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Antje Dietze is a senior researcher in the Collaborative Research Centre 'Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition' at the University of Leipzig, Germany.
Thomas Plötze is a research associate at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Leipzig, Germany.
