Description
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.
Table of Contents
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.
