Building on the recent initiative to truly globalise the field of International Relations, this book provides an innovative interrogation of regionalism.

The book applies a globalising framework to the study of regional worlds in order to move beyond the traditional conception of regionalism, which views regions as competing blocs dominated by great powers. Bringing together a wide range of case studies, the book shows that regions are instead dynamic configurations of social and political identities in which a variety of actors, including the less powerful, interact and partake in regionalisation processes and have done so through centuries.