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This chapter focuses on English School (ES) theorizing of international society at the sub-global level. It reviews the ES literature pertaining to Europe, Eurasia, Central, East and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. A considerable part of this literature focuses on Europe, but Brexit has renewed ES interest in the relations between primary and secondary institutions at the regional level more generally. The chapter also examines the ES literature on how regional international societies can be distinguished from the global international society; the interaction between regional international societies; the study of the expansion/enlargement of regional international societies; and whether the development of international society at the regional level undermines global international society.

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Stivachtis, Y.A. (2021). Regionalism. In: Navari, C. (eds) International Society. Trends in European IR Theory. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56055-3_8

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