This book examines what counts regarding the role and conceptualization of regions in world politics. It presents a fresh look at which narratives awake, persist, fall dormant or re-emerge amidst diverse interlocking processes of environmental, technological and global political changes.

Introduction Part I: Historicity of Regions in Political Geography and International Relations 1. From Bounded Spaces to Relational Social Constructs: Conceptualization of the Region in Geography 2. Regionality and Globality: Two Sides of the Same Narrative 3. Regions in the System of World Politics Part II: The Reconfiguration of "Regions" through Bordering/Ordering, Security Discourses and Modes of Crises 4. The Historical and Social Embeddedness of the Post-Ottoman Space in World Society 5. Security Politics and the "Remaking" of West Africa by the European Union: From Bounded to Fuzzy Regions 6. The Persistence of the "Middle East" as a Geopolitical Invention of Security: "Denial of Coevalness" 7. Territorial Crises, States and Entitlement at the United Nations Security Council: Ukraine 2014-2018 Part III: Regions and Meta-Geographies to Come 8. A "Reliably Frozen Region"? Imagining and Materializing Arctic Regionalism 9. Cores, Continents and Regions of Equivalence? The Multidimensionality of Eurasian Meta-geography in Russian State Discourse 10. China's Global Connectivity Politics: A Meta-Geography in the Making. Conclusion