Böcker i New Regionalisms Series-serien

Establishing strategic partnerships is a key objective for the European Union. These partnerships provide frameworks for flexible and long-term cooperation with global and regional players. This book focuses on the EU's strategy toward China and India and explores ways of promoting a stronger and more versatile role for the EU in Asia.

Studies the effectiveness of regional institutions as well as key questions concerning the attempts to overcome serious problems of security, governance and poor economic performance in the Pacific. This book talks about the requirement of a stronger commitment to overcome apparent national problems through regional cooperation.

Offers theoretical models and approaches attuned to the dynamics and contradictions of a wide range of regionalist projects in the contemporary Middle East. This volume includes case studies of the important regional organizations in different policy fields. It provides overviews of the main actors, institutions and historical development.

This book traces the advent and subsequent growth of production sharing between outsourcing textile, apparel firms and assembly operations located in designated export processing zones. This case study allows a number of broad conclusions to be reached regarding the political economy of production sharing.

Human rights are acquiring an increasingly prominent role on the world stage. These developments are addressed by an examination of the links between the evolving global human rights regime and the character and course of human rights in the world's most dynamic, complex and problematic region, that of the Asia Pacific.

Analyses the poverty reduction effectiveness of certain aspects of the European Union's (EU) development policy and suggests ways in which to enhance its effectiveness. This book focuses on three aspects of EU development policy: trade, agriculture and food security, and modes of policy-making and implementation.