The European Union and Europe's New Regionalism

This book presents a new approach to studying the European Union's regional and global relevance. It recasts into a dynamic perspective the three most significant systemic processes that define the EU as a regionalist project: its enlargement, neighborhood, and mega-regional policies. The book argues that these processes collectively demonstrate a dynamic shift of the core tenets of European regionalism from an inward-looking process of region building to an open, selective system of global interactions.

Introduces a significant new dimension to the existing literature on regionalism by incorporating a multidimensional treatment of regionalism in a dynamic perspective Explores the impact of emerging new forms of inter- and cross-regional cooperation on European regionalism Advances a new approach to studying the EU's regional and global relevance beyond actor-based constructs

Autorentext
Boyka M. Stefanova is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Geography at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Europe's Conceptualization as a Region: Post-Cold War Dynamics.- 3. The Political Sustainability of the Progressive-Enlargement Model of European Regionalism: The EU's Eastern Enlargement.- 4. The Geopolitics of European Regionalism: Competing European/Eurasian Perspectives.- 5. The Deterritorialization of European Regionalism: Global Perspectives.- 6. No Cheers for European Regionalism: EU-Centered Regionalism as a Driver for Global Governance.