The Multidimensionality of Regions in World Politics (Routledge Series on Global Order Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367280833 ISBN 13: 9780367280833

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This book examines what counts regarding the role and conceptualization of regions in world politics.

It presents a fresh look at which narratives awake, persist, fall dormant or re-emerge amidst diverse interlocking processes of environmental, technological and global political changes. It puts forward a thorough and multidimensional conceptualization of regions as embedded in changing, overlapping environments, and requires more attention to regions’ shifting materiality, temporality and technological underpinnings. Combing the approaches, questions and analyses of Critical IR and Political Geography, it calls for a renewed emphasis on the puzzle of how the contextual environment of regions may become more (or less) multidimensional, or how some aspects of a region’s contextual environment may be mutually constitutive in non-intuitive ways. Ultimately, it sheds light on the politics of regions and the regional scale in international politics in order to overcome the often-underlying territorial fixity of territory and space within IR approaches.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of international relations, international political sociology, political geography, regionalism, geopolitics and area studies.

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About the Author

Paul J. Kohlenberg is Chief Representative of the Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung Beijing Representative Office, China.

Nadine Godehardt is the Deputy Head of the Research Division Asia at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367280833
• ISBN 13: 9780367280833
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228
• Editor: Kohlenberg Paul J., Godehardt Nadine