1st Edition
Interregionalism and International Relations A Stepping Stone to Global Governance?
Interregionalism, the institutionalized relations between world regions, is a new phenomenon in international relations. It also a new layer of development in an increasingly differentiated global order.
This volume examines the structure of this phenomenon and the scholarly discourse it is generating. It takes stock of empirical facts and theoretical explanations, bringing together with clarity and concision the latest research on this key area. This essential new book:
* traces the emergence of interregionalism and reviews the latest literature
* provides a conceptual and theoretical framework for study
* includes case studies of inter-regional relations between: Asia and America; Asia and Europe; Europe and America; and Europe and Africa.
* delivers comparative analyses and special cases such as continental summits and interregional relationships beyond the Triad.
* summarizes and evaluates the findings of each chapter, providing a basis for further research.
This is a key reference book for students and researchers of regionalism, global governance and international relations.
List of tables ix
List of contributors xi
Preface xiii
List of abbreviations xv
PART I
Introduction 1
1 Interregionalism: A new phenomenon in international
relations
HEINER HÄNGGI, RALF ROLOFF AND JÜRGEN RÜLAND 3
PART II
The concept of interregional relations 22
2 Interregionalism in theoretical perspective:
State of the art
RALF ROLOFF 23
3 Interregionalism as a multifaceted phenomenon:
In search of a typology
HEINER HÄNGGI 48
PART III
The geography of interregional relations 72
Asia-America relations
4 The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC):
Transregionalism with a new cause?
VINOD K. AGGARWAL AND ELAINE KWEI 73
5 The Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation
(FEALAC): Embryonic interregionalism
LINDA LOW 103
Asia-Europe relations
6 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
and the European Union: Limited interregionalism
ALFREDO C. ROBLES, JR. 117
7 The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) process: Beyond
the triadic political economy?
CHRISTOPHER M. DENT 144
Transatlantic relations
8 The new Transatlantic interregionalism and the end
of the Atlantic Alliance
CHARLES A. KUPCHAN 170
9 The new Transatlantic interregionalism: Balanced or hegemonic?
WERNER LINK 202
Europe-Latin America relations
10 The European Union’s relations with MERCOSUR:
The issue of interregional trade liberalization
JÖRG FAUST 208
11 Europe-Latin America (EU-LAC) relations: Toward
interregional coalition-building?
ANDREW CRAWLEY 230
Africa-Europe relations
12 The European Union and Southern Africa: Interregionalism
between vision and reality
HERIBERT WEILAND 256
13 The Africa-Europe (Cairo summit) process: An expression
of "symbolic politics"
GORM RYE OLSEN 281
PART IV
Comparative aspects and special cases
14 Comparing interregionalism: Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) and Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM)
HANNS W. MAULL AND NURIA OKFEN 311
15 Beyond transregionalism: Monetary regionalism in East Asia
HERIBERT DIETER AND RICHARD HIGGOTT 342
16 "Imagined" interregionalism: Europe’s relations with
the African, Carribbean and Pacific States (ACP)
MARTIN HOLLAND 376
17 Hemispheric interregionalism: Power, domestic interests, and ideas in the Free Trade Association of the Americas (FTAA)
STEFAN A. SCHIRM 408
18 Between regionalism and transregionalism: The Indian Ocean Rim - Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC)
CHRISTIAN WAGNER 431
PART V
Conclusion
19 Interregionalism: An unfinished agenda
JÜRGEN RÜLAND 448
Bibliography 481
Index -
Biography
Heiner Hänggi is assistant director and head of think tank at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, and is also an associate faculty member at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and a lecturer in political science at the university of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Ralf Roloff is senior German professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. He is a member of the faculty of economics and social sciences at the University of Cologne, and he previously served as acting professor and assistant professor at the universities of Mainz and Trier as well as the University of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg.
Jürgen Rüland is professor of political science at the University of Freiburg and director of the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut Freiburg. He has been a visiting scholar at universities in the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and New Zealand. From 1995-2003 he served as chairman of the Advisory Board on Southeast Asia, part of the German Society of Asian Studies.