Abstract This article reflects on how the concept of regionalism has been used to explain and interpret Central Asian politics since independence. It argues that regionalism, often a norm-laden analytical category based Eurocentric assumptions, tends paint region as “failed” regional states incapable institutionalizing multilateral relations. In its place, suggests order, which is more neutral ...

The multidimensionality and multifacetedness of relations between residents the area they inhabit in form regionalism, as well activities organizations aimed at development pro-regional attitudes have found themselves field interest various scholarly disciplines, including geography. Roman Matykowski’s aim this article is to examine phenomenon from perspective geography, which periods its also ...

Over its thirty-year existence, Mercosur has experienced several changes, which refer to the models of open regionalism and multidimensional regionalism. Based on this argument, we seek present, in work, some interpretative notes, a historical institutional perspective, order provide subsidies for balance bloc, three decades operation. Focusing internal dynamics Mercosul using bibliographic doc...

© Policy Press 2015. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Policy & Politics. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Sarto, F, Veronesi, G, Kirkpatrick, I and Cuccurullo, C (2015) Exploring Regionalism in Public Management Reforms: The Case of the Italian Hospital Sector. Policy and Politics, is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/0305...

Adam N. Stulberg is Assistant Professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously, he was as a consultant at RAND and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies(CNS). He has written several articles and monographs on the strategic implications of Russian regionalism, as well as on energy security issues in the fo...

The Asia Pacific region was characterized in the second half of the twentieth century by an absence of regional trading arrangements. The situations changed after 2000, raising questions of sequencing and of the boundaries of the region. This paper argues that the proliferation of regional and bilateral agreements has been driven by the rapid emergence of regional value chains and centres on tr...

The process of authoritarian regionalism, where illiberal or similarly restrictive governments undertake a economic integration amongst each other, has emerged in the past two decades as rival to existing liberal multilateral organisations. Emblematic this approach is Eurasian Economic Union (EaEU), grouping post-Soviet states which borrowed heavily from experience EU but set itself up an alter...

Regional international organizations (IOs) are considered to be among the most efficient platforms in promoting an environmental agenda at global, regional, and national levels. Yet, dialogue between studies of global politics comparative regionalism is quite recent. The emergence non-democratic regional (NDROs) recent discoveries their implications for considered. How do NDROs matter agenda? I...