The early years of the twenty-first Century have witnessed an intensification in the carving out of the regional level of analysis and in the study of regions across the globe. Ethel Solingen’s 1999 Regional Orders at Century’s Dawn (Solingen, 1999) was a pioneering study on how states throughout the world acted regionally to respond, confront and adapt to the rapid emergence of a global economy no longer structured around North, South and East-West lines. The relevance of Solingen’s study is that it studied the breadth of regions and their distinctiveness outside the hub of central powers. It showed the significance of the regional level of analysis and opened the question of whether regions should be considered sites of global governance, locally distinct but connected to international orders.