ABSTRACT
Is the EU isolated within the emergent multipolar world? Concentrating on interregional relations and focussing on the European Union’s (EU) evolving international role with regards to regional cooperation, this innovative book collects a set of fresh empirical analyses of interregional ties binding the EU with its Eastern and Southern neighbourhood, as well as with Asia, Africa and the Americas. The 25 leading authors from 5 continents have contributed original and diverse chapters and the book advances a novel theoretical ‘post-revisionist’ approach beyond both the Eurocentrism of ‘Europe First’ perspectives as well as the Euroscepticism of those advocating to simply move ’Beyond Europe’. After a Foreword by A. Acharya, the book’s five sections reflect the main drivers of EU interregional policies: The European Union as a Sophisticated Laboratory of Regional and Interregional Cooperation (with chapters by M. Telò, L. Fawcett and T. Risse), De Facto Drivers of Regionalism (F. Ponjaert, M. Shu, A. Valladão and C. Jakobeit), De Jure Drivers of Regionalism (S. Lavenex, G. Finizio, C. Jakobeit, R. Coman, C. Cocq & S. Teo L-Shah), Cognitive Drivers of Regionalism (J. Rüland, E. Fitriani, S. Stavridis & S. Kingah, P. Bacon), and Instrumental Drivers of Regionalism (B. Delcourt, C. Olsson & G. Müller, A. Malamud & P. Seabra and L. Fioramonti & J. Kostopoulos).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|69 pages
European Integration Studies as a Reference for Regional and Interregional Cooperation
part II|53 pages
European Interregionalism and De Facto Drivers of Regional Cooperation
part III|69 pages
European Interregionalism and De Jure Drivers of Regional Cooperation
chapter 11|16 pages
Drivers of Interregional Cooperation
part IV|95 pages
European Interregionalism and Cognitive Drivers of Regional Cooperation
chapter 13|22 pages
The European Union's Interregional Human Rights Strategies in Northeast and Southeast Asia
chapter 15|18 pages
The Unintended Consequences of Interregional Democracy Promotion
chapter 16|20 pages
The European Parliament and Interregional Dialogue
part V|59 pages
European Interregionalism and Instrumental Drivers of Regional Cooperation