The Multidimensionality of Regions in World Politics

ISBN-13: 9780367280833 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 228 str.

Paul J. Kohlenberg; Nadine Godehardt

Opis

This book examines what counts regarding the role and conceptualization of regions in world politics. It presents a fresh look at which narratives awake, persist, fall dormant or re-emerge amidst diverse interlocking processes of environmental, technological and global political changes.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Historicity of Regions in Political Geography and International Relations  1. From Bounded Spaces to Relational Social Constructs: Conceptualization of the Region in Geography  2. Regionality and Globality: Two Sides of the Same Narrative  3. Regions in the System of World Politics  Part II: The Reconfiguration of "Regions" through Bordering/Ordering, Security Discourses and Modes of Crises  4. The Historical and Social Embeddedness of the Post-Ottoman Space in World Society  5. Security Politics and the "Remaking" of West Africa by the European Union: From Bounded to Fuzzy Regions  6. The Persistence of the "Middle East" as a Geopolitical Invention of Security: "Denial of Coevalness"  7. Territorial Crises, States and Entitlement at the United Nations Security Council: Ukraine 2014-2018  Part III: Regions and Meta-Geographies to Come  8. A "Reliably Frozen Region"? Imagining and Materializing Arctic Regionalism  9. Cores, Continents and Regions of Equivalence? The Multidimensionality of Eurasian Meta-geography in Russian State Discourse  10. China’s Global Connectivity Politics: A Meta-Geography in the Making.  Conclusion