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

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 Index -