Key Issues in the New Regionalism: Comparisons from Asia, Africa and the Middle East (original) (raw)

Abstract

Taking up a major challenge given to us by the project leader, Björn Hettne, at the end of this research project, our undertaking in this chapter is threefold. The first objective is to briefly reflect and draw conclusions from the UNU/WIDER research project on how regionalization can be studied, conceptualized and understood. The second is to make a comparison of Asia, Africa and the Middle East with regard to the three agendas or ‘key issues’ of the UNU/WIDER research project on the New Regionalism: globalism versus regionalism, the dynamics of regionalization, and preferred outcomes of regionalization. This leads to the third objective, to suggest an inroad to a post-WIDER research agenda and a further consolidation of the main analytical framework used in the project, the New Regionalism Approach (NRA). The chapter is structured in three main parts, according to these three objectives.

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