Includes bibliography and index.

Contents : Introduction : theories of new regionalism -- The new regionalism revisited -- The world order approach -- Regionalism and world order : the changing global setting -- The regional project in global governance -- Regionalism : providing a substance to multilateralism? -- New regionalism and economic development -- Regional security complex theory in the post-cold war world -- A region-building approach -- The political economy of scale and the construction of cross-border micro-regions -- The weave-world : the regional interweaving of economies, ideas and identities -- Conclusion : What futures for new regionalism?.