Mattheis, Frank2017-07-052017-04Frank Mattheis (2017) Repositioning Europe in the study of regions: comparative regionalism, interregionalism and decentred regionalism, Journal of European Integration, 39:4, 477-482, DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2017.1317985.1477-2280 (online)0703-6337 (print)10.1080/07036337.2017.1317985http://hdl.handle.net/2263/61257The 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 relations. Due to the self-centredness on the vivid development of the EU, other regions were largely disregarded when it came to theory building or only taken into account later as comparators.en© 2017 Frank Mattheis. This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of European Integration, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 477-482, 2017, doi: 10.1080/07036337.2017.1317985. Journal of European Integration is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/geui20.EuropeComparative regionalismInterregionalismDecentred regionalismPostprint Article