ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the impact of Commonwealth groupings on several regional organizations other than the EU and contrasts Anglophone with other Commonwealth communities, so comparing their respective contributions to contemporary global governance. It suggests that the Commonwealth's regional and governance roles are not limited to its inter-governmental character. Rather, its non-state civil society and private capital dimensions also have regional aspects, especially around regional powers like Australia, India, Nigeria and South Africa. The chapter proceeds to consider the myriad linkages between global and national Commonwealth agencies and their intermediate regional structures including inter-regional and internet connections. It concludes by reflecting on possible insights from this case study for new regionalisms and related analytic perspectives as the Commonwealth nexus cuts across established European Union (EU) regional and global connections. The coincidence of exponential economic and political liberalization with the parallel worldwide reach of the internet in the 1990s facilitated transnational networking as a feature of the 'globalization syndrome'.
