TY - BOOK AU - Andrzej Mania AU - Marcin Grabowski AU - Tomasz Pugacewicz PY - 2019 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 2511-588X SN - 9783631784174 TI - Global Politics in the 21st Century T2 - Between Regional Cooperation and Conflict DO - 10.3726/b15385 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1063177 N2 - This book focuses on the problem of regionalism, the crucial phenomenon in international relations at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. Regionalism is analyzed both in terms of regional economic and political integration, as well as regional competition and conflict. The book is divided into three parts, based on the functional and geographical criteria. The first part is devoted to the theoretical setting, including brief introduction to regionalism problems and classical theories of integration, as well as new approaches to regionalism, which are followed by the analysis of regions in the context of regional security complexes concept. The second part of the book focuses on Asian and African challenges to regionalism and the third, and final, part is devoted to the most developed subregional order, namely the European region. KW - International Relations, IR Theory, Asia, Africa, Middle East LA - English ER -