« Perspectives » Regional organizations and inter-regional relations: competitive models or a bottom-up change of multilateral global governance?
This article draws the attention firstly on the diffusion of macro-regional organizations in each continent as well as on the inter-regional relations. Secondly it places this intermediary levels of governance - between states and global organizations - in the context of the big challenge of the int...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography
2020-11-01
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| Series: | Belgeo |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/43943 |
| Summary: | This article draws the attention firstly on the diffusion of macro-regional organizations in each continent as well as on the inter-regional relations. Secondly it places this intermediary levels of governance - between states and global organizations - in the context of the big challenge of the interpretation of the current global order change after 1991.On the basis of a sophisticated conceptualization of both regionalism and inter-regionalism the articles addresses the impact of the multipolar power structure of the world, on regional cooperation. Two alternative scenarios are forecasted as outcome of this comparative research: either an instrumental and authoritarian downgrading of regional cooperation as influence spheres of great powers or the gradual emergence of a new multilateralism, post-hegemonic multilayered, more legitimate and more efficient. |
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| ISSN: | 1377-2368 2294-9135 |