European Union and new regionalism: regional actors and global governance in a post-hegemonic era

429 Pages·2007·1.63 MB·English

by  Mario Telò

EUROPEAN UNION AND NEW REGIONALISM
The International Political Economy of
New Regionalisms Series
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European Union
and New Regionalism
Regional Actors and Global Governance
in a Post-Hegemonic Era
Second Edition
Edited by
MARIO TELÒ
Institute for European Studies, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
European Union and new regionalism : regional actors and
global governance in a post-hegemonic era. - 2nd ed. - (The
international political economy of new regionalisms)
1. European Union 2. Regionalism - Europe 3. Globalization
4. Europe - Politics and government - 1989-
I. Telo, Mario
320.4'4049
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
European Union and new regionalism : regional actors and global governance in a post-
hegemonic era / edited by Mario Telo. -- 2nd ed.
p. cm. -- (The international political economy of new regionalisms
series)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-4991-5
1. European Union--Congresses. 2. Regionalism--Congresses. 3. Globablization--
Congresses. I. Telo, Mario.
HC240.E8557 2007
337.1'42--dc22
2007003828
ISBN: 978-0-7546-4991-5
Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Foreword: Regionalism – A New Paradigm? xiii
Preface to the Second Edition and Acknowledgements xvii
List of Abbreviations xix
Introduction Globalization, New Regionalism and the Role
of the European Union 1
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PART I THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 1 Regional Blocs, World Order and the New Medievalism 21
Andrew Gamble
Chapter 2 The Political Economy of New Regionalism
and World Governance 37
Pier Carlo Padoan
Chapter 3 Cultural Difference, Regionalization and Globalization 55
Thomas Meyer
Chapter 4 Alternative Models of Regional Cooperation? The Limits
of Regional Institutionalization in East Asia 75
Richard Higgott
Chapter 5 Interregionalism and World Order: The Diverging EU
and US Models 107
Björn Hettne
PART II COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL GROUPINGS
Chapter 6 Between Trade Regionalization and Various Paths
towards Deeper Cooperation 127
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Chapter 7 European Union and NAFTA 153
Alberta M. Sbragia
vi European Union and New Regionalism
Chapter 8 European Union and MERCOSUR 165
Álvaro Vasconcelos
Chapter 9 African Regionalism and EU-African Interregionalism 185
Fredrik Söderbaum
Chapter 10 Comparison of European and Southeast Asian Integration 203
Kjell A. Eliassen and Catherine Børve Arnesen
PART III EUROPEAN UNION AS A NEW CIVILIAN POWER
IN THE MAKING?
Chapter 11 The European Union and the Challenges of the Near Abroad 225
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Chapter 12 European Union and Eastern Europe 235
Reimund Seidelmann
Chapter 13 The EU and the Mediterranean: Open Regionalism
or Peripheral Dependence? 255
George Howard Joffé
Chapter 14 Europe: Trading Power, American Hunting Dog,
or the World’s Scandinavia? 277
Göran Therborn
PART IV RECONSIDERATIONS
Chapter 15 European Union, Regionalism, New Multilateralism:
Three Scenarios 297
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Appendix List of Regional and Interregional Arrangements 327
Sebastian Santander
Planispheres by Pablo Medina Lockhart 357
Bibliography 361
Index 399
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
Figure 2.1 Club equilibrium 44
Figure 2.2 Costs and benefits of regional integration 46
Figure 2.3 Integration and reputation 47
Figure 2.4 Domestic equilibrium 48
Tables
Table 7.1 Regional cooperation projects undertaken by NAFTA’s
Commission for Environmental Cooperation 160
Table 7.2 Regional cooperation projects undertaken by NAFTA’s
Commission for Labor Cooperation 161
Table 8.1 MERCOSUR main trading partners 168
Table 8.2 Trade flows between EU and MERCOSUR 169
Table 8.3 Trade relations between Brazil and Argentina 173
Table 8.4 Foreign Direct Investment flows to MERCOSUR 177
Table 9.1 Two types of regionalism 187
Table I EU trade with Mediterranean countries 271
Table II Mediterranean country trade with the EU 271
Table III EU Foreign Direct Investment 271
Table IV European Union meda support 272
Table V Financial support under the Usmepi programme 272
Table VI Funding under the European neighbourhood and partnership
instrument 272
Table 14.1 Shares of world exports (of goods and services) l950–l996,
percentages 279
Table 14.2 Europe’s proportion of the world’s population l950–2025,
percentages 279
Table 14.3 Social security transfers and total current public
disbursements l960–2005, percentage of GDP 283
Table 14.4 Standardized open unemployment rates in the EC/EU l964–2005 287
Table 14.5 Kinds of standing in the world 290
Table 14.6 Europe’s positive futures 292
Planispheres
Map 1 Main regional arrangements 357
Map 2 Main interregional arrangements including EU 358
Map 3 Main interregional arrangements including US 359
This book is dedicated to our colleagues and friends in
Asia, Africa and Latin America
Notes on Contributors
Catherine Børve Arnesen is associate professor at the Department of Public
Governance at the Norwegian School of Management BI (NSM- BI) in Oslo and
is the director of the Centre for Media Economics (www.bi.no/sfm). She holds a
Doctorate in Economics from NSM- BI. She has published academic articles and
book chapters related to her research interests, which include regulation, European
telecommunications policy, strategy and comparative studies.
Kjell A. Eliassen is a professor of Public Management at the Department of
Public Governance at the Norwegian School of Management and director of the
Centre for European and Asian Studies. He has published eighteen books and
several articles related to his research interests: EU institutions and decision
making, European affairs, telecommunications and public management. His most
recent books include: European Telecom Liberalisation (1999), a new edition of
Making Policy in the European Union (2001) and European Telecommunications
Privatisations (2007).
Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge. He is
a Fellow of the British Academy and a co-editor of New Political Economy. His
books include Regionalism and World Order (1996) (co-edited with Tony Payne),
Politics and Fate (2000), and Between Europe and America: The Future of British
Politics (2003). His current research, supported by the Leverhulme Trust, is on
Anglo-America and the problem of world order.
Björn Hettne is Professor at the Department of Peace and Development, Göteborg
University. He is author of a number of books on development theory, international
political economy, European integration and ethnic relations. He is currently
the president of the Academic Council of the GARNET PhD School, EU 6th
Framework Program. He was Program Director of the United Nations University
WIDER project on new regionalism and co-edited the five volume series Globalism
and the New Regionalism, 1999–2001, Macmillan.
Richard Higgott is Professor of Politics and International Studies and Director
of the ESRC, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the
University of Warwick, Coordinator of the Network of Excellence GARNET on
‘Global Governance, Regionalism and Regulation. The Role of the EU’ ( EU 6th
Framework Program, 2004–2010) and editor of the Pacific Review. With Morgan
Ougaard he published Towards a Global Polity (Routledge 2002) and is currently
completing a book called From Colonialism to Global Governance. A Geneology
of Political Development.