After brief introduction of global governance, this entry describes current debate on global governance through transformationalist, managerial, and critical approaches. It also elaborates on links between global governance, international law, and development

This chapter contributes to comparative regionalism studies by exploring the Belt and Road Initiative (BR) as an emerging regionalism project. We start by stating a need for broad conceptual frameworks to study the BR dynamics and consider the “world of regions” framework as such an...

This chapter aims to contribute to development of a conceptual framework for the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative, relying on studies of comparative regionalism. First, the chapter identifies the risk of domination of the geopolitical approach over OBOR thinking and describes the need to...

The question of ordering and ‘governing the globe’ in a way to meet the challenges faced by humankind is central to contemporary discussions of international relations. A vision of world order based on regions has a prominent place in this debate. This short text will focus on importance of...

The aim of this article is to reevaluate some elements of literature on Central Asian regionalism through the prism of contemporary regionalism theories elaborated by international epistemic community of regional scholars. Firstly, it will briefly present contemporary regionalism as a phenomenon...