Instituto Complutense de Estudios internacionales (ICEI)
Abstract
In the wider context of the post cold war era, regions have emerged as actors in the international society, thus assuming more pronounced and diverse identities. Through their external relations and mutual interactions they have opened new spaces as agents within the international system.
Interregional cooperation is a process which should be studied in its own right. It is important to identify the process of cooperation as a constitutive element of the regions that engage in it, as well as for the nature of the emerging interregionalism that follows. Likewise, it is worthwhile to analyse the potential impact of interregionalism in terms of a social institution on global governance and the genesis of a new world order. The theoretical perspective of Social Constructivism allows to take these dimensions of interregional cooperation and interregionalism into consideration
