Interregionalism and International Relations

Heiner Hänggi is assistant director and head of think tank at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, and is also an associate faculty member at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and a lecturer in political science at the university of St. Gallen, Switzerland

This volume presents the state of the art of the new phenomenon interregionalism examining both empirical observations and theoretical explanations.

Part 1: Introduction 1. Interregionalism: A New Phenomenon in International Relations Heiner Hänggi, Ralf Roloff and Jürgen Rüland Part 2: The Concept of Interregional Relations 2. Interregionalism in Theoretical Perspective: State of the Art Ralf Roloff 3. Interregionalism as a Multifaceted Phenomenon: In Search of a Typology Heiner Hänggi Part 3: The Geography of Interregional Relations Asia-America Relations 4. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC): Transregionalism with a New Cause? Vinod K. Aggarwal and Elaine Kwei 5. The Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation (FEALAC): Embryonic Interregionalism Linda Low 6. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union: Limited Interregionalism Alfredo C. Robles, Jr. 7. The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Process: Beyond the Triadic Political Economy? Christopher M. Dent 8. The New Transatlantic Interregionalism and the End of the Atlantic Alliance Charles A. Kupchan 9. The New Transatlantic Interregionalism: Balanced or Hegemonic? Werner Link 10. The European Union's relations with MERCOSUR: The Issue of Interregional Trade Liberalization Jörg Faust 11. Europe-Latin America (EU-LAC) Relations: Toward Interregional Coalition-Building? Andrew Crawley 12. The European Union and Southern Africa: Interregionalism between Vision and Reality Heribert Weiland 13. The Africa-Europe (Cairo summit) Process: An Expression of "Symbolic Politics" Gorm Rye Olsen Part 4: Comparative Aspects and Special Cases 14. Comparing Interregionalism: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Hanns W. Maull and Nuria Okfen 15. Beyond Transregionalism: Monetary Regionalism in East Asia Heribert Dieter and Richard Higgott 16. "Imagined" Interregionalism: Europe's Relations withthe African, Carribbean and Pacific States (ACP) Martin Holland 17. Hemispheric Interregionalism: Power, Domestic Interests, and Ideas in the Free Trade Association of the Americas (FTAA) Stefan A. Schirm 18. Between Regionalism and Transregionalism: The Indian Ocean Rim - Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) Christian Wagner Part 5: Conclusion 19. Interregionalism: An Unfinished Agenda Jürgen Rüland