A Spatial Approach to Regionalisms in the Global Economy

1. Front Matter

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2. Globalization or Regionalization?

   • Michael Niemann

   Pages 1-17

3. Missing Spaces: IR Theory and Cooperation

   • Michael Niemann

   Pages 18-63

4. The Global System as Mille-Feuille

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   Pages 64-92

5. Southern Africa as Social Space

   • Michael Niemann

   Pages 93-115

6. Regionalization: The Search for a Spatial Fix

   • Michael Niemann

   Pages 116-140

7. Regional Practices and Counterpractices

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   Pages 141-167

8. Back Matter

   Pages 168-185

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The author challenges the traditional manner in which regionalization has been approached and suggests that the failure to come to grips with this phenomenon is the result of the modernist regulation of space to margins of analysis. He advances instead a spatially orientated approach which views states as one of multiple layers of a global social space. Regionalization represents the construction of new layers in an effort to search for an institutional fix to the challenges of globalization.

• Global economy
• globalization
• Institution
• regionalization

• International Studies Program, Trinity College, Hartford, USA

  Michael Niemann

MICHAEL NIEMANN is Associate Professor of International Studies at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.

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