Tanja A. Börzel is Professor of Political Science and holds the Chair for European Integration, Freie Universität Berlin.; Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse is Director of the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin.

INTRODUCTION; 1 Tanja A. Borzel and Thomas Risse: Introduction; 2 Fredrick Soderbaum: : Old, New, and Comparative Regionalism: The History and Scholarly Development of the Field; PART I: APPROACHES TO COMPARATIVE REGIONALISM; 3 Tanja A. Borzel: Theorizing Regionalism: Cooperation, Integration, and Governance; 4 Etel Solingen and Joshua Malnight: Globalization, Domestic Politics, and Regionalism; 5 Thomas Risse: Explaining Regionalism: Diffusion, Translation, and Adaptation; 6 Amitav Acharya: Regionalism Beyond EU-Centrism; PART II: REGIONAL ORDERS AROUND THE WORLD; 7 Francesco Duina: North America and the Transatlantic Area; 8 Andrea C. Bianculli: Latin America; 9 Frank Schimmelfennig: Europe; 10 Kathleen J. Hancock and Alexander Libman: Eurasia; 11 Anja Jetschke and Saori N. Katada: Asia; 12 Morten Valbjorn: North Africa and the Middle East; 13 Christof Hartmann: Sub-Saharan Africa; PART III: REGIONAL GOVERNANCE; 14 Arie M. Kacowicz and Galia Press-Barnathan: Regional Security Governance; 15 Soo Yeon Kim, Edward D. Mansfield and Helen V. Milner: Regional Trade Governance; 16 Kathleen R. McNamara: Regional Monetary and Financial Governance; 17 Laszlo Bruszt and Stefano Palestini: Regional Development Governance; 18 Anna van der Vleuten: Regional Social and Gender Governance; 19 Peter M. Haas: Regional Environmental Governance; 20 Sandra Lavenex, Flavia Jurje, Terri E. Givens, and Ross Buchanan: Regional Migration Governance; 21 Jon Pevehouse: Regional Human Rights and Democracy Governance; PART IV: COMPARING REGIONAL INSTITUTIONS; 22 Tobias Lenz and Gary Marks: Regional Institutional Design: Pooling and Delegation; 23 Karen J. Alter and Liesbet Hooghe: Regional Dispute Settlement; 24 Jeffrey T. Checkel: Regional Identities and Communities; 25 Berthold Rittberger and Philipp Schroeder: The Legitimacy of Regional Institutions; 26 Andrea Ribeiro-Hoffmann: Inter- and Transregionalism; CONCLUSIONS; 27 Tanja A. Borzel and Thomas Risse: Three Cheers for Comparative Regionalism

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