This book presents a new approach to studying the European Unions regional and global relevance. It recasts into a dynamic perspective the three most significant systemic processes that define the EU as a regionalist project: its enlargement, neighborhood, and mega-regional policies. The book argues that these processes collectively demonstrate a dynamic shift of the core tenets of European regionalism from an inward-looking process of region building to an open, selective system of global interactions.

Boyka M. Stefanova is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Geography at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.

1. Introduction.- 2. Europes Conceptualization as a Region: Post-Cold War Dynamics.- 3. The Political Sustainability of the Progressive-Enlargement Model of European Regionalism: The EUs Eastern Enlargement.- 4. The Geopolitics of European Regionalism: Competing European/Eurasian Perspectives.- 5. The Deterritorialization of European Regionalism: Global Perspectives.- 6. No Cheers for European Regionalism: EU-Centered Regionalism as a Driver for Global Governance.