Overview
- Challenges the dominant bias in the study of regionalism to privilege formal intergovernmental organisations
- Analyses how regions are produced from borderlands and peripheries through transnational delineations, practices, economies and identities
- Approaches regionalism in a transdisciplinary perspective by drawing on border studies, political geography, studies of informality, the recent scholarship on the “practical turn” in international relations and transnational politics
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- fringe regionalism in international studies
- cross-border identities
- goveernance
- peripheral borders
- regionalism
- Sahara
- Caucasus
- case studies
- transational delineations
- transnational identities
- political geography
- transnational politics
- border studies
- regional demarcations
- empirical analysis cross-border identity
- economics and borderland studies
- inter-governmental organization
- international organizational studies
- governance innovation
- territorial delineations
About this book
This book introduces the novel concept of fringe regionalism to the field of international studies. It examines how regions are practiced by peripheral borderlands rather than centrally planned, thus offering new avenues for researching regionalism beyond the conventional focus on formal intergovernmental organisations. Two in depth case studies, the Sahara and the Caucasus, provide the real-life application of the concept and the authors use the tensions between competing demarcations of the region, the regional nature of extra-legal economies and the narratives of cross-border identities to steer their empirical approach. Through thorough analysis, the volume applies the concept of fringe regionalism to regions previously neglected by conventional approaches.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Luca Raineri is Research Fellow at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa, Italy.
Alessandra Russo is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre Emile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fringe Regionalism
Book Subtitle: When Peripheries Become Regions
Authors: Frank Mattheis, Luca Raineri, Alessandra Russo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97409-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97408-8Published: 26 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97409-5Published: 17 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 97
Topics: Regionalism, Governance and Government, International Organization, Regional Development