Regionalism1 projects are major sites of governance, cooperation, and conflicts today. Beyond trade agreements, they also concern development, security and political issues. Some projects have developed what scholars call a high level of ‘regionness’, an agency to act on, and influence world politics as autonomous actors.2 This development of ‘regionness’ is significant in two main ways. At the global level, as regionalism interacts with processes of globalisation, it emerges from region-builders’ multiple strategies to mediate, shape, profit, or shield themselves from globalisation. At the national level, ‘regionness’ is also a process of state transformation through which coalitions of actors relocate ‘the governance of particular issues beyond the scope of national governance and politics’.3 Regionalism has thus become a major form of political rule in international politics, and studying interactions that occur both within and between regions, as well as between regions and the international system is crucial to understand how the world works today.4 Despite the prominence of regionalism, there has been a relative neglect of its study by IPS and, to some lesser extent, by IPE. There has also been a limited conversation between analyses of political and security regionalism and studies of its economic aspect. This contribution thus examines the analytical insights that can be drawn from putting in dialogue IPS and IPE to study the politics of regionalism. It argues that engaging with a socio-political economy of regionalism, echoing the socio-political economy of the globe advocated in this forum, enables a more holistic understanding of regionalism; one which is sensitive to the social conditions and processes of regionalism, while retaining the importance of the economy in all its dimensions, and acknowledging its embeddedness in the global economy.

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解开区域主义的政治：从区域主义的社会政治经济中可以期待什么？

区域主义 1 项目是当今治理、合作和冲突的主要场所。除了贸易协定，它们还涉及发展、安全和政治问题。一些项目已经发展出学者所说的高水平“区域性”，作为自主行动者行动和影响世界政治的机构。2 这种“区域性”的发展在两个主要方面具有重要意义。在全球层面，随着区域主义与全球化进程相互作用，区域建设者通过多种策略来调解、塑造、获利或保护自己免受全球化影响。在国家层面，“区域性”也是一个国家转型的过程，通过这个过程，行动者联盟将“特定问题的治理”转移到国家治理和政治的范围之外。3 因此，区域主义已成为国际政治中政治规则的主要形式，研究区域内部和区域之间以及区域与国际体系之间的相互作用对于了解当今世界的运作方式至关重要。 4 尽管IPS 和在较小程度上 IPE 对区域主义的研究相对忽视。在政治和安全区域主义的分析与其经济方面的研究之间也存在有限的对话。因此，这一贡献检验了通过对话 IPS 和 IPE 来研究区域主义政治可以得出的分析见解。它认为，与区域主义的社会政治经济相呼应，与本论坛所倡导的全球社会政治经济相呼应，能够更全面地了解区域主义；一种对区域主义的社会条件和进程敏感，同时保留经济在各个方面的重要性，并承认其在全球经济中的根基。