ABSTRACT
Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, the global order is said to be changing fundamentally – from bipolar to multipolar, from clearly structured by bloc confrontation to a new complexity, and from an imagined hierarchy of spatial configurations around the nation-state to a multiplicity of competing and overlapping regimes of territorialization (Engel and Middell 2005). Regions, regionalisms and processes of regionalization are attributed a particularly important role in these processes of respacing social relations (see, for example, Hurrell 2007; Söderbaum 2015; Bach 2016). In this edited volume, we aim at discussing the role of regionalisms, the making of regions and the interplay of regionalisms. Our point of departure is to focus on regional reconfigurations and institutionalizations, with special regard to the most dynamic processes outside of Europe.
