What does it take to belong to a region and exert power over it? The scholarship on regional powers has elaborated sophisticated indicators to establish nuances of power, but the depiction of the region has remained vague. ...
Most visibly since 2002, with the establishment of the African Union (AU), there have
been indications that Africa may be following in Europe’s footsteps in the process of
regional integration. But is it really so? This ...
In this article, we analyse an instance of revitalisation of a dormant
interregional organisation dating back to the Cold War: the Zone of Peace and
Cooperation of the South Atlantic (ZOPACAS), initially launched by South ...
The nature of the relationship between the European Union (EU) and Africa is in permanent evolution. Historically, the
EU mostly dominated the relationship while Africa developed adaptive/reactive strategies. With the ...
The European Union (EU) has a long tradition of interregional dialogue mechanisms with other regional organisations and is using these relations to project its own model of institutionalised actorness. This is partly ...
The constitution of European Union (EU) studies has long been an exclusionary process, both dealing extensively with internal debates and arguing for an own discipline within or even next to political sciences and international ...
