A World Of Regions

Author : Peter J. Katzenstein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501700385

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A World of Regions by Peter J. Katzenstein Pdf

Observing the dramatic shift in world politics since the end of the Cold War, Peter J. Katzenstein argues that regions have become critical to contemporary world politics. This view is in stark contrast to those who focus on the purportedly stubborn persistence of the nation-state or the inevitable march of globalization. In detailed studies of technology and foreign investment, domestic and international security, and cultural diplomacy and popular culture, Katzenstein examines the changing regional dynamics of Europe and Asia, which are linked to the United States through Germany and Japan. Regions, Katzenstein contends, are interacting closely with an American imperium that combines territorial and non-territorial powers. Katzenstein argues that globalization and internationalization create open or porous regions. Regions may provide solutions to the contradictions between states and markets, security and insecurity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism. Embedded in the American imperium, regions are now central to world politics.

Author : Paul J. Kohlenberg,Nadine Godehardt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000168648

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The Multidimensionality of Regions in World Politics by Paul J. Kohlenberg,Nadine Godehardt Pdf

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. It puts forward a thorough and multidimensional conceptualization of regions as embedded in changing, overlapping environments, and requires more attention to regions’ shifting materiality, temporality and technological underpinnings. Combing the approaches, questions and analyses of Critical IR and Political Geography, it calls for a renewed emphasis on the puzzle of how the contextual environment of regions may become more (or less) multidimensional, or how some aspects of a region’s contextual environment may be mutually constitutive in non-intuitive ways. Ultimately, it sheds light on the politics of regions and the regional scale in international politics in order to overcome the often-underlying territorial fixity of territory and space within IR approaches. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of international relations, international political sociology, political geography, regionalism, geopolitics and area studies.

Author : Sallie A. Marston,Paul L. Knox,Diana M. Liverman,Vincent J. Del Casino,Paul Robbins
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Geography
ISBN : 032182105X

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World Regions in Global Context by Sallie A. Marston,Paul L. Knox,Diana M. Liverman,Vincent J. Del Casino,Paul Robbins Pdf

World Regions in Global Context presents a strong global sensibility and an emphasis on current concerns, with models of interdependent development, spatial and social inequality, and questions of spatial justice. The authors maintain that regions are the outcomes of a set of twin forces of globalization and regionalization. Therefore, each regional chapter stresses the global systems of connection that drive unique regional processes, making regions different. By studying regions, students not only learn the critical elements of different places, but also come to understand the fundamental processes that drive change. The Fifth Edition discusses geographies of emerging regions, incorporates cutting-edge data visualizations and infographics, including Quick Response codes linking to online media, features a completely modernized cartography program, and much more.

Author : Galia Press-Barnathan,Ruth Fine,Arie M. Kacowicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351371377

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The Relevance of Regions in a Globalized World by Galia Press-Barnathan,Ruth Fine,Arie M. Kacowicz Pdf

This volume provides a unique open inter-disciplinary dialogue across the Humanities and Social Sciences to further our understanding of the phenomenon of regions and regionalism in a globalized world both at the theoretical and empirical levels. What comprises a region? What are the different regional dynamic processes that take place? What is the relationship between the regional and the global? What role does identity building play? Bringing together scholars from various disciplines within and across the Social Sciences and the Humanities to reflect on these questions, the book explores how regions are imagined, constructed, understood, and explained in different academic disciplines. Each chapter addresses these common questions and uses its own disciplinary lenses to answer them. In addition, the volume offers interesting reflections on the academic borders constructed in the study of regions, thus demonstrating the importance of obtaining insights from both social scientists and humanities scholars in order to better understand the relevance of regions in a complex and globalized world. An important work for scholars and postgraduate students in many fields, including political science, international relations, sociology, economics, geography, history and literature, as well as for those interested in regionalism and area studies.

Author : Michael Schulz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317033486

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The EU and World Regionalism by Michael Schulz Pdf

Much has been said about the driving forces of region-building processes or regionalization worldwide, yet few systematic and comparative studies have been conducted on how regions can contribute to the building of other regions - and more concretely, how the European Union has 'pushed' for regionalization worldwide. This comparative book investigates the impact that the EU has on regionalization elsewhere through its inter-regional relations. Covering agriculture, trade, ASEAN, NAFTA, MERCOSUR and Commonwealth amongst other topics, it investigates whether the EU contributes directly, as well as indirectly, to increased regional integration in different parts of the world.

Author : Jan Nijman,Peter O. Muller,Harm J. de Blij
Publisher : Wiley Global Education
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119116424

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The World Today: Concepts and Regions in Geography, 7th Edition by Jan Nijman,Peter O. Muller,Harm J. de Blij Pdf

The World Today is the number one bestselling brief World Regional Geography textbook. The seventh edition continues to bring readers geographic perspectives on a fast-changing world through the regional view. Restructured chapters provide a macro review of important physical, cultural, and political characteristics, drawing upon up-to-date significant world events and crises. The cartographically superior maps have been updated for the seventh edition to offer an accurate and vast picture of the world--multi-layer, interactive, GIA maps have been added to WileyPLUS Learning Space. To complement the extensive map program, the majority of the photos have been taken by our authors during their field research, allowing the student to experience an authentic geographical viewpoint of our world.

Author : Sallie A. Marston,Paul L. Knox,Diana M. Liverman
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Geography
ISBN : 0131449753

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World Regions in Global Context by Sallie A. Marston,Paul L. Knox,Diana M. Liverman Pdf

This book ... provide[a] a body of knowledge about how natural, social, economic, political, and cultural phenomena come together to produce distinctive territories with distinctive landscapes and cultural attributes: that is, world regions. [It] emphasize[s] that although there is diversity among world regions, it is important for us to understand the increasing interdependencies that exist among and between regions in order to build any real understanding of the modern world.-Pref.

Author : Philippe Lombaerde,Francis Baert,Tânia Felício
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789400727519

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The United Nations and the Regions by Philippe Lombaerde,Francis Baert,Tânia Felício Pdf

This unique book investigates the implications of the rising importance of supra-national regional organizations for global governance in general, and for the United Nations, in particular. It touches upon issues such as regional representation at the UN, high-level dialogues with regional organisations, as well as the coordination of UN member states’ voting behaviour in the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council. The book further explores the regional dimension and coordination of UN operations in areas such as peace and security, human rights, and sustainable development. The contributions to the book are both in-depth chapters and shorter viewpoints, written by a combination of academics, policy-makers at regional organizations, and experts from international think tanks. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of global governance.

Author : Anssi Paasi,John Harrison,Martin Jones
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785365805

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Handbook on the Geographies of Regions and Territories by Anssi Paasi,John Harrison,Martin Jones Pdf

This new international Handbook provides the reader with the most up-to-date and original viewpoints on critical debates relating to the rapidly transforming geographies of regions and territories, as well as related key concepts such as place, scale, networks and regionalism. Bringing together renowned specialists who have extensively theorized these spatial concepts and contributed to rich empirical research in disciplines such as geography, sociology, political science and IR studies, this interdisciplinary collection offers fresh, cutting-edge, and contextual insights on the significance of regions and territories in today’s dynamic world.

Author : Ronald L. Tammen,Jacek Kugler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538131886

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The Rise of Regions by Ronald L. Tammen,Jacek Kugler Pdf

This timely book presents fresh, forward-looking analyses of key regions across the globe, organized around power transition theory. Tracking political and economic trajectories broadly, the contributors use cutting-edge data to forecast general trends in regional politics, economics, and diplomacy. Their collective insights into the likely directions of regional dynamics within a changing global order comprise an invaluable guidebook for forward-thinking readers considering where the world is headed in the coming decades and the implications for strategy, politics, and policy.

Author : Robert Huggins,Hiro Izushi,Daniel Prokop,Piers Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135128982

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The Global Competitiveness of Regions by Robert Huggins,Hiro Izushi,Daniel Prokop,Piers Thompson Pdf

The aim of this book is to consider theoretically the notion of the global competitiveness of regions, as well as giving attention as to how such competitiveness may be empirically measured. With this in mind, the book has three specific objectives: first, to place the concept of regional competitiveness within the context of regional economic development theory; second, to present a rationale and method for quantifying the global competitiveness of regions; and, third, to undertake the most geographically widespread analysis of regional competitiveness differences across the globe. With regard to the third goal, the analysis incorporates more than 500 regions across Europe, North and South America, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and the so-called BRIC economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China. The importance of the concept of competitiveness has increased rapidly in recent years, with the issues surrounding it becoming, at the same time, more empirically refined and theoretically complex. The focus on regions reflects the growing consensus that they are the primary spatial units that compete to attract investment, and it is at the regional level that knowledge is circulated and transferred, resulting in agglomerations, or clusters, of industrial and service sector enterprises. This growing acknowledgement of the region’s role as a key spatial unit of organisation has led to attention turning to competitiveness at a more regional level. The book explores the results of the World Competitiveness Index of Regions (WCIR), covering the rankings and results of the 2014 edition. The WCIR provides a tool for analysing the development of a range of regional economies across the globe. It enables an illustration of the changing patterns of regional competitiveness on the international stage to be generated. In fundamental terms, the WCIR aims to produce an integrated and overall benchmark of the knowledge capacity, capability, and sustainability of each region, and the extent to which this knowledge is translated into economic value and transferred into the wealth of the citizens of each region.

Author : Barry Buzan,Ole Wæver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521891116

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Regions and Powers by Barry Buzan,Ole Wæver Pdf

This book develops the idea that since decolonisation, regional patterns of security have become more prominent in international politics. The authors combine an operational theory of regional security with an empirical application across the whole of the international system. Individual chapters cover Africa, the Balkans, CIS Europe, East Asia, EU Europe, the Middle East, North America, South America, and South Asia. The main focus is on the post-Cold War period, but the history of each regional security complex is traced back to its beginnings. By relating the regional dynamics of security to current debates about the global power structure, the authors unfold a distinctive interpretation of post-Cold War international security, avoiding both the extreme oversimplifications of the unipolar view, and the extreme deterritorialisations of many globalist visions of a new world disorder. Their framework brings out the radical diversity of security dynamics in different parts of the world.

Author : Martin Jones,Anssi Paasi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317526575

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Regional Worlds: Advancing the Geography of Regions by Martin Jones,Anssi Paasi Pdf

A key concern in the debate and empirical research on the geography of regions is the evolution of the conceptualizations and practical uses of the idea of ‘region’. This idea prioritises both the intellectual and the practical development of regional studies. This book drives the discussion further. It stresses the complex forms of agency/advocacy involved in the production and reproduction of regional spaces and space of regionalism as well as the importance of geohistory and context. The book moves beyond the territorial/relational divide that has characterized debates on regions and regional borders since the 1990s. The contributors answer key questions from different conceptual and concrete-contextual angles and to motivate readers to reflect on the perpetual significance of regional concepts and how they are mobilized by various actors to maintain or transform the contested spatialities of societal power relations. This book was based on a special issue of Regional Studies.

Author : John Cole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134816941

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Geography of the World's Major Regions by John Cole Pdf

This volume presents a global view of today's most pressing issues through an analysis of the twelve major regions of the world. Environmental degradation, natural catastrophe, population pressures and human conflict all impact in different ways and to different degrees on the society and environment of these regions. Economic and political restructuring within each region is covered, and topics include: natural resources; agriculture; industry and services; the role of the military; and the impact of global economic change. This work is intended as an introduction for students studying the changing geography of the world, but should also provide a useful overview to students researching specific regions, seeking comparative analysis of regions, or following general courses on the economic and political geography of both the post-industrial and the developing worlds. Over 250 photographs, maps and figures complement a range of boxed case-studies, key points, questions and guides to further reading.

Author : Sallie A. Marston,Paul L. Knox,Diana M. Liverman,Vincent J. Del Casino,Paul Robbins
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Geography
ISBN : 0134153669

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World Regions in Global Context by Sallie A. Marston,Paul L. Knox,Diana M. Liverman,Vincent J. Del Casino,Paul Robbins Pdf