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EU studies increasingly recognize the salience of new regional insights. Hence, this collection of original essays provides a broad overview of regionalism, together with detailed analyses on the construction, activities, and implications of both established and emerging examples of formal political and economic organizations as well as informal regional entities and networks. Aimed at scholars and students interested in the continuing growth of regionalism, The Ashgate Research Companion to Regionalisms is a key resource to understanding the major debates in the field. Organized into three main sections, this volume deals with a wide range of issues covering the following important research areas: -Section one covers theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of established and formal regionalism, emerging and informal regionalism, inter-regionalism, and levels of regionalism. -Section two provides detailed case-studies of established and formal regionalisms: EU, NAFTA, ASEAN, SAARC, OAS, MERCOSUR, AU, ECOWAS, and SADC. -Section three offers case-studies that investigate emerging and informal regionalisms in Oceania, the Arab League, BRICSAM, and the Commonwealth(s) as well as thought-provoking chapters on micro-regional processes evident in spatial development initiatives, transnational gangs, transfrontier conservation areas, and the migration-conflict nexus in natural resource sectors. With the study of regionalism becoming an increasingly important part of politics, international relations, development, and global studies courses, this comprehensive volume is a valuable addition for classroom use. Cover 1 Contents 6 List of Tables, Figures and Boxes 10 List of Acronyms 12 Notes on Contributors 16 PART I 22 Introduction and Overview: The Study of New Regionalism(s) at the Start of the Second Decade of the Twenty-First Century 24 Comparing Regionalisms: Methodological Aspects and Considerations 52 Formal and Informal Regionalism 72 The Rise of Interregionalisms: The Case of the European Union’s Relations with East Asia 90 PART II 110 The European Union: A New Form of Governance 112 Regionalism in Flux: Politics, Economics, and Security in the North American Region 134 Norms, Identity, and Divergent Paths toward Regional Order in South and Southeast Asia: ASEAN and SAARC in Comparative Perspective 150 China and Economic Regionalism in East Asia 166 Hemispheric Regionalism in the Americas 180 The Changing Context of Regionalism and Regionalisation in the Americas: Mercosur and Beyond 196 The Evolution of the African Union Commission and Africrats: Drivers of African Regionalisms 214 The ‘New’ ECOWAS: Implications for the Study of Regional Integration 234 Regional Organisation, Regional Arena: The SADC in Southern Africa 262 PART III 276 Oceania: A Critical Regionalism Challenging the Foreign Definition of Pacific Identities in Pursuit of Decolonised Destinies 278 Middle East Regionalisms: Can an Institution Bridge Geo-Culture to Geo-Economics? 294 Beyond Geography: BRIC/SAM and the New Contours of Regionalism 316 Commonwealths and Regionalisms in the First Quarter of the Twenty-First Century 332 Spatial Development Initiatives: Two Case Studies from Southern Africa 346 The Transnational Gang: Challenging the Conventional Narrative 360 Transfrontier Conservation and the Spaces of Regionalisms 382 New Regionalisms, Micro-Regionalisms, and the Migration-Conflict Nexus: Evidence from Natural Resource Sectors in West Africa 396 List of Websites 418 Author Index 420 Subject Index 422 By Timothy M. Shaw, J. Andrew Grant And Scarlett Cornelissen. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.