The European Union and Europe's New Regionalism - The Challenge of Enlargement, Neighborhood, and Globalization

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.

List 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.

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Boyka M Stefanova, Boyka M. Stefanova
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9783319601069
• ISBN: 978-3-31-960106-9
• No. of pages: 225
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 218 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 448 g
• Illustrations: XV, 225 p. 3 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Europa, B, Globalization, Internationale Wirtschaft, EU, Europäische Union, Political Science, International Relations, foreign policy, European Union, auseinandersetzen, Political Science and International Studies, International Economics, European Integration, Regionalism, Economic systems & structures, EU (European Union), International institutions, International Organization, European Union Politics, European Economic Community literature