Telo M. (ed.) European Union and New Regionalism. Regional Actors and Global Governance in a Post-Hegemonic Era

2nd edition. — Ashgate, 2007. — 406 p.Stemming from an international and multidisciplinary network of leading specialists, this best-selling text is fully updated with new chapter additions. With the first edition prepared at the end of the last century, this new edition anticipates the world of regionalism as we move further into this millennium.
This new edition offers:
- A vigorous response to conventional wisdom on EU international identity.
- An exploration of key issues of regionalism versus globalization and the potential for world economic and political governance through regionalism.
- A key resource for postgraduate or undergraduate study and research of international relations, European studies, comparative politics and international political economy.
Taking into account the expanded European Union, the volume comprises contributions from established scholars in the field to highlight external relations in the framework of the development of regional arrangements within the globalized world of the 21st century.Foreword: regionalism – a new paradigm?
Introduction: globalization, new regionalism and the role of the European UnionTheoretical Perspectives
Regional blocs, world order and the new Medievalism
The political economy of new regionalism and world governance
Cultural difference, regionalization and globalization
Alternative models of regional cooperation? The limits of regional institutionalization in East Asia
Interregionalism and world order: the diverging EU and US modelsComparative Analysis of Regional Groupings
Between trade regionalization and various paths towards deeper cooperation
European Union and NAFTA
European Union and MERCOSUR
African regionalism and EU-African interregionalisn
Comparison of European and Southeast Asian integrationEuropean Union as a New Civilian Power in the Making?
The European Union and the challenges of the near abroad
European Union and Eastern Europe
The EU and the Mediterranean: open regionalism or peripheral dependence?
Europe: trading power, American hunting dog, or the world's Scandinavia?Reconsiderations
European Union, regionalism, new multilateralism: 3 scenariosAppendix: list of regional and interregional arrangements