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Book SynopsisIs 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. Ponjaer
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'This excellent book, focusing on agreements between the EU and its partners, provides a theoretically and empirically rich analysis of different forms of interregionalism. By systematically building on previous research in this area, it provides insights that will stimulate both academic and policy debate.' Vinod K. Aggarwal, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
'Breaking with traditional approaches, this book analyses the EU as a laboratory of experiments in regional and interregional cooperation. It is a major new contribution to regionalism studies and will be essential reading both for its fresh insights and the quality of its contributors.' Andrew Gamble, University of Sheffield, UK
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Louise Fawcett, Frederik Ponjaert and Mario Telò
Part I: European Integration studies as a Reference for Regional and Interregional Cooperation
1. Contribution to a Periodization of Comparative Regionalist Studies
Mario Telò
2. Regionalism by Emulation: Considerations across Time and Space
Louise Fawcett
3. The EU and the Diffusion of Regionalism
Tanja A. Börzel and Thomas Risse
4. Three Reasons for Reassuring the Autonomy of a Regionalist and Interregionalist Research Agenda
Mario Telò
Part II: European Interregionalism and De Facto Drivers of Regional Cooperation
5. The EU and Economic Regionalism in East Asia
Min Shu
6. Europe and Latin America: Differing Routes for Regional Integration
Alfredo G.A. Valladão
7. Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with Sub-Saharan Africa
Cord Jakobeit
Part III: European Interregionalism and De Jure Drivers of Regioanl Cooperation
8. The EU and the Promotion of Democracy through Interregional Relations
Giovanni Finizio
9. Interregionalism in EU External Migration Policies
Sandra Lavenex
10. Countering Terrorism: Challenges and Opportunities in ASEAN-EU Cooperation
Céline Cocq and Sarah Teo
11. Drivers of Interregional Cooperation: The Rise and Consolidation of a European Rule of Law Regime
Ramona Coman and Frederik Panjaert
Part IV: European Interregionalism and Cognitive Drivers of Regional Cooperation
12. European Norms Torn: Between the Universal and Regional Levels
Barbara Delcourt
13. The European Union's Interregional Human Rights Strategies in Northeast and Southeast Asia: Learning Lessons from Localization
Paul Bacon
14. ASEAN and EU Cooperative Culture in the Asia-Europe Meeting
Evi Fitriani
15. The Unintended Consequences of Interregional Democracy Promotion: Normative and Conceptual Misunderstandings in EU-ASEAN Relations
Jürgen Rüland
16. The European Parliament and Interregional Dialogue: The Case of Responsibility to Protect
Stelios Stavridis and Stephen Kingah
Part V: European Interregionalism and Instrumental Drivers of Regional Cooperation
17. The EU and NATO's Comprehensive Approaches in Afghanistan and Somalia: Interregional or Intraregional?
Christian Olsson and Gustavo G. Müller
18. Challenging the Poltiical and Security Dimensions of the EU-LAC Relationship
Andrés Malamud and Pedro Seabra
19. EU-Africa Interregional Relations and the Role of South Africa
Lorenzo Fioramonti and John Kotsopoulos
Conclusion
Louise Fawcett, Frederik Ponjaert and Mario Telò
