Contents: Preface, Soren Dosenrode -- On regional integration, Soren Dosenrode -- Arctic regionalization, Lise Lyck -- The trajectory of Arab non-integration: historical reconstruction and theoretical explanation, Wolfgang Zank -- China and regional integration in East Asia: opportunities, constraints and challenges, Li Xing and Zhang Shengjun -- Rethinking the (European) foundations of sub-Saharan African regional economic integration, Peter Draper and Morisho Mwana Biningo Nene -- Political dialogue in South America: the role of South American Nations Union, Javier Fernando Luchetti -- Central American integration: prospects for a troubled region, Peter Abrahamson -- Loosely-coupled confederalism: the Commonwealth of Independent States and the post-Soviet space, Stephen Aris and Mark Webber -- Interdependence, leadership and institutionalization: the triple deficit and fading prospects of Mercosur, Andres Malamud -- Is North America unravelling? Transformations of regionalism in North America, Jeffrey Ayres and Laura Macdonald -- Spill-back: the Faroe Islands' zigzag towards independence, Soren Dosenrode -- No limits to European integration? Institutional change in response to the financial crisis, Wolfgang Zank -- Limits to regional integration: equilibrium and spill-back, Soren Dosenrode -- Index.