ABSTRACT
Global politics has always been defined as much by the struggle who gets to shape the international system as it has been about the local and regional resistance to hegemonial projections of order. Nonetheless, the increased multidimensionality of regions, as depicted by the contributions to this volume, has concrete consequences for those actors building regions – that is, the advocates and activists – who now not only face new challenges but are also presented with new opportunities and resources to develop and pursue their regional visions. Karoline Postel-Vinay convincingly suggests that regions have always been “distinct expressions of global order” – and it will be worthwhile for future researchers to take this a step further and ask what the expression of regions in “disintegrating” or “changing” global order looks like. The interdisciplinary conversation about the multidimensionality of regions in world politics led the contributing authors thus to re-focus, implicitly or explicitly, on the nexus of the global and the regional.
