The European Union and Europe's New Regionalism: The Challenge of Enlargement, Neighborhood, and Globalization

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This book presents a new approach to studying the European Union’s regional and global relevance. It recasts into a dynamic perspective the three most significant systemic processes that define the EU as a regionalist project: its enlargement, neighborhood, and mega-regional policies. The book argues that these processes collectively demonstrate a dynamic shift of the core tenets of European regionalism from an inward-looking process of region building to an open, selective system of global interactions. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Introduction (Boyka M. Stefanova)....Pages 1-27 Europe’s Conceptualization as a Region: Post-Cold War Dynamics (Boyka M. Stefanova)....Pages 29-77 The Political Sustainability of the Progressive Enlargement Model of European Regionalism: The EU’s Eastern Enlargement (Boyka M. Stefanova)....Pages 79-114 The Geopolitics of European Regionalism: Competing European/Eurasian Perspectives (Boyka M. Stefanova)....Pages 115-158 The Deterritorialization of European Regionalism: Global Perspectives (Boyka M. Stefanova)....Pages 159-201 No Cheers for European Regionalism: EU-Centered Regionalism as a Driver for Global Governance (Boyka M. Stefanova)....Pages 203-220 Back Matter ....Pages 221-225