Interregionalism across the Atlantic Space

This book focuses on interregional relations across the Atlantic and the possible evolution of a new, distinctive Atlantic space for international relations. It provides a comprehensive insight into the overlapping linkages of interregionalism in the wider Atlantic space. Additionally, it raises the question of relevance, currently the main question in this field of research: Is interregionalism important because it brings about something new that really matters or is it simply a (perhaps unavoidable) by-product of regionalism? The book conducts an analysis of six interregional relations criss-crossing the Atlantic space, accounting for the multitude of interregional connections within a potential Atlantic macro region and analysing the differences, conflicts and convergences between regional organizations. It engages with the issue of agency in interregional relations, and argues that interregional processes and agendas are always driven and constructed by certain actors for certain purposes.

Chapter 1. The Atlantic Space – A Region in the Making (Andréas Godsäter and Frank Mattheis).- Chapter 2. Debunking Interregionalism: Concepts, Types and Critique – with a Pan-Atlantic Focus (Gian Luca Gardini and Andrés Malamud).- Chapter 3. Volatile Interregionalism: the Case of South Atlantic Relations (Frank Mattheis).- Chapter 4. Actors and Opportunities: Interregional Processes between the Arab Region and Latin America and the Caribbean (Anna Ayuso, Santiago Villar, Camila Pastor and Miguel Fuentes).- Chapter 5. The EU and Africa: Regionalism and Interregionalism beyond Institutions (Nicoletta Pirozzi and Andréas Godsäter).- Chapter 6. Assessing Interregional Relations between North America and Sub-Saharan Africa (John Kotsopoulos and Madeleine Goerg).- Chapter 7. EU-Latin American Relations as a Template for Interregionalism (Anna Ayuso and Gian Luca Gardini).- Chapter 8. The North Atlantic: a Case of Bicontinental Regionalism (Riccardo Alcaro and Patrick Reilly).- Chapter 9.Latin America’s Interregional Reconfiguration: The Beginning or the End of Latin America’s Continental Integration? (Paul Isbell and Kimberly Nolan García).