Comparative Regional Integration: Challenges for EU Studies

This special issue edited by Alex Warleigh-Lack and Luk Van Langenhove deals with the contribution of comparative regionalism/regional integration studies to the rethinking of EU studies. It sets out what is to be considered a danger for EU studies, namely its tendency towards introversion, and argue for a sustained engagement with the studies of other global regions as a means to avoid this. It draws on political science and psychology to set out a suitable framework for comparing global regions such as the EU. The various contributions to the special issue demonstrate the utility for EU studies scholars of a more sustained, and more routinised, engagement with the work on 'new regionalism'.