Globalising the Regional, Regionalising the Global: Volume 35, Review of International Studies

A collection of leading international scholars examine the concept of regions from a range of perspectives and assess leading contemporary examples.

Rick Fawn (Edited by)

9780521759885, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 30 April 2009

268 pages
24.7 x 17 x 1.1 cm, 0.47 kg

'This volume provides convincing arguments for the importance of a regional approach to security. It includes both innovative theoretical approaches as well as insightful analyses of regional security organizations, including both their strengths and weaknesses. It is certain to have a major impact on this rapidly growing approach to international relations.' Professor Gary Goertz, University of Arizona

Regions are now everywhere across the globe and are increasingly fundamental to the functioning of all aspects of world affairs from trade to conflict management, and can even be said to now constitute world order. But to what extent are their origins, purposes, operating principles and wider consequences the same? An eminent and international collection of scholars examine the central but disputed concept of regions from a range of perspectives and assess leading contemporary examples. Rather than uncritically celebrating regions, the collection also offers some contrarian findings and wider lessons of interest across the study of International Relations and beyond.

1. 'Regions' and their study: where from, what for and whereto? Rick Fawn
2. Regional hierarchies: authority and local international order David A. Lake
3. When security community meets balance of power: overlapping regional mechanisms of security governance Emanuel Adler and Patricia Greve
4. Between the revisionist state and the frontier state: regional variations in state war-propensity Benjamin Miller
5. The resurgence of the 'region' and 'regional identity': theoretical perspectives and empirical observations on regional dynamics in Europe Anssi Paasi
Case Studies: 6. The contradictions of regionalism in North America Ann Capling and Kim Richard Nossal
7. Latin America: contrasting motivations for regional projects Diana Tussie
8. The new East Asian regionalism: much ado about nothing? John Ravenhill
9. The southern African security order: regional economic integration and security among developing states James J. Hentz
10. The commonwealth of independent states: an example of failed regionalism? Paul Kubicek.

Subject Areas: Media, information & communication industries [KNT], International relations [JPS], Comparative politics [JPB]