Scholars of international relations explore the growing importance of regions in international relations and in the study of it. In sections on content, theory, and case studies, they consider such aspects as a global perspective on pan movements: regional anomalies or abnormal regions, building regional communities: the role of regional organizations in Africa, environmental regionalism in the Caspian Sea: a functionalist approach, whether there is such a thing as a Confucianist Chinese foreign policy: a case study of the Belt and Road Initiative, and the rise and fall of an emerging power: agency in Turkey's identity-based regionalism. The nine papers are from February 2018 workshop in Leiden. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Building on the recent initiative to truly globalise the field of International Relations, this book provides an innovative interrogation of regionalism.
Building on the recent initiative to truly globalize the field of international relations, this book provides an innovative interrogation of regionalism. The book applies a globalizing framework to the study of regional worlds in order to move beyond the traditional conception of regionalism, which views regions as competing blocs dominated by great powers. Bringing together a wide range of case studies, the book shows that regions are instead dynamic configurations of social and political identities in which a variety of actors, including the less powerful, interact and partake in regionalization processes and have done so through the centuries.