The New International Relations of Sub-Regionalism: Asia and Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367585426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str.

Hidetoshi Taga; Seiichi Igarashi

Opis

This book focuses on sub-region as a new social unit of international society. It is based on the findings obtained through meticulous fieldwork and joint studies conducted over the past 10 years by about 20 researchers, primarily from Japanese universities and Chiang Mai University, Thailand.

Spis treści

Foreword

Notes on contributors

Preface

Introduction: A New Framework for Understanding Sub-Regions/Sub-Regionalism (Hidetoshi Taga and Seiichi Igarashi)

1. Toward a New Analytical Framework of Subregions: Cross-scale Regional Governance (Hidetoshi Taga and Hideo Kojimoto)











2. Small States’ Strategies in the Mekong Region: Perspectives from Laos (Yuji MORIKAWA)











3. Alternative Mekong Regionalism: From the Perspective of Regional Hegemony and Civil Society (Seiichi Igarashi)











4. Civil Society vs. GMS States in Terms of Infrastructure and Hydropower Development Projects (Kosum Saichan and Hiroshi Komatsu)











5. Changing Borderland Local Communities with Development of the GMS Program (Ekamol Saichan)











6. The Mekong Region and Changing Borders: A Focus on the CBTA and BCPs (Tetsu Sadotomo and Kenji Nakayama)











7. Normative Politics in the European Union’s External Actions: The Case of ENI Cross-Border Cooperation (Yoichiro Usui)











8. Sub Regionalism in the Border Regions between the EU and Russia (Kazu Takahashi)











9. The Parallel Evolution of Functional Macroregions and Cross-scale Regional Governance as Emerging Political Instruments in the North Sea Region (Hideo Kojimoto, Yoshitaka Ota, and Ann Bell)

Index

O autorze

Hidetoshi Taga is Professor of Social Sciences at Waseda University, Japan

Seiichi Igarashi is Associate Professor in Graduate School of Social Sciences at Chiba University, Japan