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Regionality and globality. Two sides of the same narrative

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The existence of international regions constitutes arguably one of the stickiest puzzles of International Relations (IR) theory's sticky relation with space and time. The essentialism of the notion of territorial sovereignty that defines international relations and more generally the problematic a-spatial, a-historical features of a large part of positivist and/or Anglophone IR 1 are not new issues (Corbridge and Agnew 1995; Rengger and Thirkell-White 2007). The need to historicise and at least localise, if not spatialise, IR theory has been one of the impetuses of Critical IR, and a promise that has been fulfilled, up to a point (Murphy 2007). Yet the formation of international regions and the characterisation of what "a region"-a time-space object par excellence-actually is, remain largely unsolved questions. And this, remarkably, despite the considerable body of works that the field of IR has engendered on regional issues in world affairs since the late 1940s, consisting of two main waves. The pioneer, and still in use, "regional integration" literature, that lasted from 1940s to the late 1970s, had a primary focus on security and security-defined communities. The "new regionalism" literature that emerged in the 1990s was initially concerned with (de)regulation and the regionalisation/ globalisation linkage, later opening up to issues of sustainable development, human security as well as traditional and less traditional topics of geopolitics. Furthermore, we might be witnessing the development of a third wave of literature on international regions, triggered by the unfolding of novel regional practices and thinking, that is, the "regions to come" discussed in the last part of this volume. This rich scholarship, particularly prolific in the late 1990s, has produced invaluable conceptualisations of distinct cooperation and community-building processes, the legacy of which is a conceptual toolbox well enough equipped and relevant to engage in significant comparative regionalism (Börzel and Risse 2016). The "regional integration" literature emerged from the combined geopolitical anxieties and puzzles of WWII and the build-up of the Cold War. It has been closely associated to the birth of functionalist theory and notably David Mitrany's quest for systemic peace (Mitrany 1943), followed by more or less like-minded scholars informed by alternative views to Realpolitik and deep commitment to pacifism such as Leon Lindberg and Ernst Haas. In the mid-1970s

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