This essay points out that regional space, with the new regionalism as its way of organization, constitutes a buffer zone and the only intermediary between nation-states and globalization.

• 本文认为,作为国家与全球化之间惟一的中间渠道,地区空间层面以及作为其组织方式的新地区主义,构成了两者间的缓冲地带和媒介。