ABSTRACT

This volume’s central objective is to explore the European Union’s (EU) interregional relations from a post-revisionist perspective. Our aim was to assess the extent to which the EU’s interregional policies have either enhanced regional cooperation in other regions of the globe, or paradoxically hampered it. In so doing, the volume has sought to bring together a diverse, qualified and globally representative set of contributions – reflecting both geographical and epistemic pluralism, but whose overall coherence would be guaranteed through both a clear and well-argued overall structure, on the one hand, and a shared if varyingly defined object of study, on the other. These two common anchors (i.e. overall structure and study object) ensure the ‘interactive’ and ‘dialectic’ nature of the volume’s pluralistic set of chapters, and this despite the fact each chapter is characterized by a particular research question which often entails a specific theoretical framework and a distinct research design.