ABSTRACT
This collection of chapters was set out to discuss new regionalisms in a changing global order and in particular to map such developments beyond the European case. It is based on a two-year research project that was funded by the Saxon State Ministry of Science and the Arts (SMWK) that facilitated debates among the international group of scholars brought together in this volume. The interest in the concept of new regionalisms reflects a vivid and growing academic as well as political concern about the nature of the emerging new world order after the end of the Cold War in 1989/ 90 and a brief US-dominated interregnum in the 1990s. New regionalisms have been discussed in three ways: (1) as a particular form of spatial reconfiguration (or a particular regime of territorialization) in this emerging global order; (2) as a strategy various state and non-state actors chose in order to pursue their specific interests in this order in the making; and (3) as a particular academic framing of these observations.
