Stemming from an international and multidisciplinary network of leading specialists
This best-selling text is fully updated with new chapter additions
With the first edition prepared at the end of the last century and the second edition adding inter-regional relations
This new edition focuses on competing models of regional cooperation within a multipolar world and the role of European Union
This new edition offers: A comparative analysis of regional cooperation and of both US-centred and EU-centred interregionalism
A fresh exploration of key issues of regionalism versus globalization and the potential for world economic and political governance through regional cooperation
Notably in hard times
A vigorous response to conventional wisdom on the controversial EU international identity An appendix on regional and interregional organizations
A key resource for postgraduate or undergraduate study and research of international relations