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Download PDF (136 Index accountability 86, 219–20, 222, 275, 316, Arctic regionalism 489–96, 500–501 365–6, 407, 461 area studies 1, 327, 466 Acharya, A. 314, 484 Argentina 354, 479, 483–4 actor-networks 72, 188 Aristotle 197 Acts of Union 245 Armenia 399 Addie, J.-P. 475 Arnold, P. 222 Advisory Council on Intergovernmental artificial intelligence 142, 146, 148–50 Relations (ACIR) 470 Asheim, B.T. 130 aero-regionalism 14 Asian Development Bank 399, 440 Afghanistan 399, 423 Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank 396, African Development Bank 460–61 425, 436, 440 African regionalism 457–67 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) African Union 316, 460, 463, 465 391, 425 African urbanization 358–68 Association of South East Asian Nations Agadir Agreement 391 (ASEAN) 23, 37, 306, 324, 425 Agnew, J. 15, 37, 39, 54, 81, 84 atavistic regionalism 44 agribusiness 341–2 Atkinson, J. 144 agriculture 186, 212, 214, 242, 263, 333, 337–9, Augustine (St) 198 341, 348, 362–3, 376–7, 410, 415, 418–21, austerity 71, 222, 485 424, 444, 464 Australia 95, 214, 227 Airbnb 147 Australasian regionalism 444–54 Airbus 112 Austria 187, 189, 398 al-Assad, B. 388 authoritarianism 390, 392, 458 Albania 202, 397–8 autonomy 8, 11, 126, 199–200, 202, 214, Aldrich, H. 125 216–17, 220, 238, 243, 254, 256–7, 261, Algeria 386–7 288, 293, 324, 347, 365, 380, 400, 402, 410, Allen, J. 3–4, 30–31, 59–60, 84 415, 418, 422–6, 457, 468, 473, 496 Allmendinger, P. 86 in South America 479–87 Al-Shabaab 462 Azerbaijan 399, 403 Amin, A. 59, 175, 226 Anglophone context 9, 15–16, 57, 458–9, 463 Baden-Württemberg 5, 10, 69, 95, 108, 159 Angola 461 Badinger, H. 188 Antarctic regionalism 489–92, 496–501 Bailey, I. 190 Antarctic Treaty System 489–91, 498–9, 501 Bakic-Hayden, M. 404 anthropology 1, 7, 25, 111, 268, 374 Bakker, K. 474 anti-colonialism 457–8 Balassa, B. 313 anti-globalization populism 256 Baldersheim, H. 221 anti-urbanism 359–61 Balkans conflict 40 apartheid 459, 461, 466 Bandura, A. 126 Apple 113 banks 63, 204, 436, 441, 459–60 apps 147–8 Barber, B. 223–4, 238 Arab League 388, 390, 392 Barents Euro-Arctic Council 489 Arab Spring 206, 388, 391–2 Basque Country 220, 231–2, 234, 236–40, 300 archipelagic regionalism 14 Bavaria 220 architectural regionalism 14 Beal, V. 224 Arctic Council 489–90, 492–6, 501 Becker, B. 328 Arctic Environment Protection Strategy Beer, A. 446, 449 (AEPS) 492 behavioural economic geography 123–4, 127 Anssi Paasi, John515 Harrison and Martin Jones - 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