Much has been said about the driving forces of region-building processes or regionalization worldwide, yet few systematic and comparative studies have been conducted on how regions can contribute to the building of other regions - and more concretely, how the European Union has 'pushed' for regionalization worldwide.

This comparative book investigates the impact that the EU has on regionalization elsewhere through its inter-regional relations. Covering agriculture, trade, ASEAN, NAFTA, MERCOSUR and Commonwealth amongst other topics, it investigates whether the EU's contributions, both direct and indirect, to increased regional integration in different parts of the world.

Contents: Introduction, Philippe De Lombaerde and Michael Schulz; Supporting regional integration and cooperation worldwide: an overview of the European Union approach, Giulia Pietrangeli; Exporting the European model of regional integration: the case of agriculture, Sebastian Zaleski and Felix Mittermayer; EU trade strategy and regionalism: assessing the impact on Europe's developing country partners, Clive George, Tomasz Iwanow and Colin Kirkpatrick; Toes in the water: the 'makability' of ASEAN and European Commission support to economic integration in Southeast Asia under the ASEAN-EU programme for regional integration support (APRIS), David Martin; The European Union and the 'making' of South American regionalism, José Briceño and Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano; NAFTA parity in real time and the 'making' of the EU-Mexico partnership, Rosalba Icaza Garza; Normative Europe: changing values and attitudes in Central America, José Caballero; An assessment of European Union cooperation towards the Andean community (1992–2007), Marleny Bustamante and Rita Giacalone; The role of epistemic communities in the 'makability' of MERCOSUR, Mercedes Isabel Botto; An evaluation of the EU-Mediterranean region-building from the perspective of the regionalization process in the Mediterranean, Ana Bojinovic Fenko; The EU's ambitious regionalization of the South Caucasus, Syuzanna Vasilyan; The EU and (sub-)regional organizations in North-Eastern Europe: impact on (sub-)regional cooperation and integration, Tobias Etzold; The making of the East African community: a case study, Karel van Hoestenberghe, Hein Roelfsema and Swabiri Khalidi; The EU and regional integration in Central Africa: promoting inter-regionalism as an incentive to the regionalist scheme?, Firmin Mbala; Commonwealth(s) of regions extra-EU? Anglophone globalization and new regionalisms, Timothy M. Shaw; EU support to regional integration worldwide and the 'makability' of regions: conclusions, Philippe De Lombaerde and Michael Schulz; Index.

About the Editor: Edited by Philippe De Lombaerde, United Nations University (UNU-CRIS), Belgium and Michael Schulz, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Reviews: 'This important book fills a hole in the theory and practice of region-building, namely the unique and little understood role of the EU foreign policy of region-making throughout the world. It is systematic and solidly comparative and will provide a benchmark for further research on the new regionalism and world order.'
Björn Hettne, University of Göteborg, Sweden

'This is an important and valuable book as it examines in a thorough manner the external impact of the EU’s regionalising impulse. It comprehensively brings together policymakers and scholars in a rich collection of case studies on a neglected area of regional integration studies. The authors present a rigorous analysis of the complexities and nuances of regionalism and inter-regionalism.'
Philomena Murray, University of Melbourne, Australia

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