Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Planispheres -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword to the Third Edition: Regionalism - A New Paradigm? -- Preface to the Third Edition and Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Globalization, New Regionalism and the Role of the European Union -- Part I: Theoretical Perspectives -- 1 Regional Blocs, World Order and the New Medievalism -- 2 The Political Economy of New Regionalism and World Governance -- 3 Cultural Difference, Regionalization and Globalization -- 4 Alternative Models of Regional Cooperation? -- 5 Interregionalism and World Order: The Diverging EU and US Models -- Part II: Comparative Analysis of Regional Groupings -- 6 Between Trade Regionalization and Various Paths towards Deeper Cooperation -- 7 NAFTA and United States Regional Trade Policy -- 8 Competing Latin American Regionalisms in a Changing World -- 9 African Regionalism and EU-African Interregionalism -- 10 Southeast Asian and European Integration Compared -- Part III: European Union as a New Civilian Power in the Making -- 11 The European Union and the Challenges of the Near Abroad -- 12 The European Union, the Eastern Neighbourhood and Russia: Competing Regionalisms -- 13 Regionalism, the European Union and the Arab Awakening -- 14 Europe: Trading Power, American Hunting Dog, or the World's Scandinavia? -- Part IV: Reconsiderations -- 15 European Union, Regionalism, New Multilateralism: Three Scenarios -- Appendix: Regional, Interregional and Global Arrangements and Multilateral Organizations -- Planispheres -- Bibliography -- Index.