Editorial: The <i>SAGJ</i> and 2010

Ramutsindela, Maano

doi:10.1080/03736245.2010.530061

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“…Regionalism discourse and practice among emerging economies was primarily driven through the acceptance of the EU model as globally relevant and applicable (Gibb, 2007(Gibb, , 2009Olanrewaju, 2007). Despite the evident prescription of Eurocentric values for regionalism transposition among emerging economies, failure anywhere else came to be blamed on the victim (Simon, 1998(Simon, , 2010Sidaway, 2002;Taylor, 2005;Olanrewaju, 2007;Bachman & Sidaway, 2010;Ramutsindela, 2010). To be precise, as Gibb (2007, p.433) observes, the success and failure of regionalism became a function of acceptance, or lack thereof, of "rules-based and legally enforceable regional governance structure, together with sharing of sovereignty" in accordance with the EU model.…”

Section: Globalism Versus Regionalism and The Goldman Sachs Conceptiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Groping in the Dark with the “Non-Places” BRICS: Geopolitics of the Emergence of an Empire or States Racing to the Bottom?

Tsheola

2014

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Theorization of regionalism is yet to resolve the question of the appropriateness of amalgamation versus pluralism jurisdiction. The formation of the BRICs in 2009, and the inclusion of South Given historical matrices of coloniality in global geopolitics and international relations, Russia and, perhaps, China could be harbouring selfinterests relating to cultural, historical and ideological assimilation within the set. To this extent, the BRICS set's regionalism should construed as another oxymoron wherein member states joined "non-places" that are "groping in the dark" within global geopolitics and international relations. Nuance notions of "empires" provide useful insights to understanding the motives underlying the BRICS set. This article aims to determine if the BRICS set signifies the emergence of contemporary empires with "civilizing" missions or if it is a manifestation of states racing to the bottom. The article concludes that the BRICS is a deeply complex and conflicted set that involves attempts at both externally-driven and inward-oriented management of international geopolitics through "civilizing" missions and/or "non-places" regionalism of states racing to the bottom.

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Section: Globalism Versus Regionalism and The Goldman Sachs Conceptiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Groping in the Dark with the “Non-Places” BRICS: Geopolitics of the Emergence of an Empire or States Racing to the Bottom?

Tsheola

2014

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“…If states and other actors (forces) compete and/or collaborate in "shaping a regional space", then regions must also be central to non-spatial processes, in addition to their evident territoriality; and spaces of regionalism should therefore be territorial terrains for articulation and contestations of power and politics of engagement (Agnew, 2000;MacLeod & Jones, 2007;. This paper holds that trade regionalism is intrinsically a bordering and socio-spatial process of transformation, which should be deliberately used to create and recreate "territorial power" as well as to produce and reproduce dominion thereupon (Paasi, 1999(Paasi, , 2004(Paasi, , 2005(Paasi, , 2009a(Paasi, , 2010Sidaway, 2002;Ramutsindela, 2009Ramutsindela, , 2010bRamutsindela, , 2011bOverman et al, 2010). Africa's desire for decolonization through trade regionalism is longstanding and evident in initiatives such as the 1991 Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community (AEC), and recently NEPAD.…”

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“…Trade regionalism should be a deeply spatial process of bordering that holds the capacity to "redefine" the meaning and function of Africa's colonial borders (Ramutsindela, 2010a). Insights from the region-border studies suggest that trade regionalism should create and recreate regional spaces for the determination and domination of territorial power (Paasi, 2004(Paasi, , 2009bSidaway, 2002;Ramutsindela, 2009Ramutsindela, , 2010b. Trade regionalism should be amenable to manipulation for shaping a regional space in accordance with specified goals of producing and reproducing dominion over trade relations (MacLeod & Jones, 2007;Agnew, 2000;Paasi, 2010;Overman, Rice, & Venables, 2010;.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%