This is the first of five volumes reporting on the UNU-WIDER study on New Regionalism. It deals with the conceptions and meanings of two processes which probably will have a crucial influence on the shape of the 'new world order' - globalization and regionalization. These studies relate to each other as challenge to response, globalization being the challenge of economic and cultural homogenization of the world and regionalization being a social and political reaction. The leading writers in the field contribute thought-provoking and fascinating articles to this volume.

The third volume in "The New Regionalism Series", this text presents various national perspectives on the process of regionalization, in order to offer a more concrete understanding of its dynamics.

This text is dedicated to the implications of the new regionalism for global security and development. The fourth volume in the five-volume "The New Regionalism Series", it features contributions from the UNU/WIDER project on new regionalism.

This book is dedicated to the implications of the new regionalism for global security and development. The fourth volume in the five-volume The New Regionalism Series, it features contributions from the UNU/WIDER project on new regionalism. Earlier volumes have dealt with the relationship between globalization and regionalization as well as various national perspectives from the North and from the South on the process of regionalization. The fifth volume will be published separately next year.