1st Edition

Interregionalism and International Relations A Stepping Stone to Global Governance?

Edited By Jürgen Rüland, Heiner Hänggi, Ralf Roloff Copyright 2006
    388 Pages
    by Routledge

    384 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.