New Regionalisms Post-EPAs: What Prospects for Sustainable Development in Africa and the Caribbean

Increasingly, there are multiple definitions of regions & their development in Africa & the Caribbean. Who so defines: the EU and/or the South? This paper advances a discussion about alternative definitions with reference to the BRICs along with fragile /failed states. It also considers how varieties of capitalisms & of civil societies impact regional governance, including CSR. And it recognises the impacts on regionalisms of conflicts & peace-making. Finally, the paper considers the range of implications for analyses of regionalisms, disciplines & discourses as well as public policy, non-state as well as state.