First of five volumes reporting on the UNI-WIDER project on New Regionalism, which deals with the conceptions and meanings of two processes which will influence the shape of the 'new world order'. In the INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY series.

This text deals with the conceptions and meanings of two processes which may have a crucial influence on the shape of the "new world order" globalization and regionalization. They relate to each other as challenge to response, globalization being the challenge of economic and cultural homogenization of the world and regionalization being a social and political reaction.

Foreword by Giovanni Andrea Cornia - Prologue to the Five Volumes - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction by the Editors - Globalization and the New Regionalism: The Second Great Transformation
B.Hettne - Rethinking the New Regionalism in the Context of Globalization
J.H.Mittelman - Regionalization in Response to Polarising Globalization
S.Amin - Political Regionalism: Master or Servant of Economic Internationalisation?
H.Hveem - The New Regionalism: Impediment or Spur to Future Multilateralism?
P.S.Mistry - Globalism and Regionalism: The Costs of Dichotomy
R.Pettman - Regionalization and Its Impact on the Theory of International Relation
K.Ldhteenmdki &
J.Kdkvnen - Regionalism and World Order After the Cold War
R.Falk - New Regionalism in Southern Africa: Part of or Alternative to the Globalization of the World Economy?
B.Odin - Transnational Integration and National Disintegration Revisited
O.Sunkel &
M.Mortimore - Index