Interregionalism and International Relations : A Stepping Stone to Global Governance? (Hardcover)

List of tables ix

List of contributors xi

Preface xiii

List of abbreviations xv

PART I

Introduction 1

1 Interregionalism: A new phenomenon in international

relations

HEINER HANGGI, RALF ROLOFF AND JURGEN RULAND 3

PART II

The concept of interregional relations 22

2 Interregionalism in theoretical perspective:

State of the art

RALF ROLOFF 23

3 Interregionalism as a multifaceted phenomenon:

In search of a typology

HEINER HANGGI 48

PART III

The geography of interregional relations 72

Asia-America relations

4 The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC):

Transregionalism with a new cause?

VINOD K. AGGARWAL AND ELAINE KWEI 73

5 The Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation

(FEALAC): Embryonic interregionalism

LINDA LOW 103

Asia-Europe relations

6 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

and the European Union: Limited interregionalism

ALFREDO C. ROBLES, JR. 117

7 The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) process: Beyond

the triadic political economy?

CHRISTOPHER M. DENT 144

Transatlantic relations

8 The new Transatlantic interregionalism and the end

of the Atlantic Alliance

CHARLES A. KUPCHAN 170

9 The new Transatlantic interregionalism: Balanced or hegemonic?

WERNER LINK 202

Europe-Latin America relations

10 The European Union’s relations with MERCOSUR:

The issue of interregional trade liberalization

JORG FAUST 208

11 Europe-Latin America (EU-LAC) relations: Toward

interregional coalition-building?

ANDREW CRAWLEY 230

Africa-Europe relations

12 The European Union and Southern Africa: Interregionalism

between vision and reality

HERIBERT WEILAND 256

13 The Africa-Europe (Cairo summit) process: An expression

of "symbolic politics"

GORM RYE OLSEN 281

PART IV

Comparative aspects and special cases

14 Comparing interregionalism: Asia-Pacific Economic

Cooperation (APEC) and Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM)

HANNS W. MAULL AND NURIA OKFEN 311

15 Beyond transregionalism: Monetary regionalism in East Asia

HERIBERT DIETER AND RICHARD HIGGOTT 342

16 "Imagined" interregionalism: Europe’s relations with

the African, Carribbean and Pacific States (ACP)

MARTIN HOLLAND 376

17 Hemispheric interregionalism: Power, domestic interests, and ideas in the Free Trade Association of the Americas (FTAA)

STEFAN A. SCHIRM 408

18 Between regionalism and transregionalism: The Indian Ocean Rim - Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC)

CHRISTIAN WAGNER 431

PART V

Conclusion

19 Interregionalism: An unfinished agenda

JURGEN RULAND 448

Bibliography 481

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