Europe's Changing Geography : the impact of inter-regional networks.

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Title:

Author:

Bellini, Nicola.

ISBN:

9780415539777

9780203383711

Publication Information:

London : Routledge, 2013.

Physical Description:

206 s.

Series:

Regions and Cities ; 65

General Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One: Introduction 1. Introduction (Nicola Bellini and Ulrich Hilpert) Pa Two: New Challenges and New Patterns of Collaboration 2. Cross Border Cooperation for Innovation in the Mediterranean (Andrea Stocchiero) Part Three: Europe' s New Regionalisation: The Integration of Regional Activities through Macro-regions 3. The Baltic Sea Region: Who cooperates with whom, and why? (Carsten Schymik) 4. Transnational infrastructure projects and their impact on region-building in the southwestern Baltic Sea Region (Magdalena Sch nweitz) 5. Towards a "wide area co-operation": The economic rationale and political feasibility of the Adriatic Euro-region (Andrea Bramanti and Paolo Rosso) 6. A typology of agents and subjects of regional cooperation: the experience of the Mediterranean Arch (Antoni Dur i Guimer and Xavier Oliveras Gonz lez) Part Four: Europe' s Re-Regionalisation Across Borders 7. The Pyrenees-Mediterranian Euroregion: Policy Networks and Institutional Capacities (Pilar Rodr.

Abstract:

Europe' s regions have become particularly important partners for the European Union in realizing its policy goals and this has involved increasing cooperation across national borders, with fostering and additional funding from the European Union allowing regions to strengthen their activities and to find partners for joint projects. Collaboration has been especially abundant among regions that enjoy similar situations, resources, problems, orientations and socio-cultural backgrounds. Hence, foci of activity have developed....

Subject Term:

Regional economics -- Europe.

Regional planning -- Europe.

European cooperation.

Added Author:

Bellini, Nicola.

Hilpert, Ulrich, 1951-.

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Summary

European macro-regions, Euroregions and other forms of inter-regional, cross-border cooperation havenbsp;helped to shape new scenarios and new relational spaces which may generate opportunities for economic development, while redefining the political and economic meaning of national borders. This book is based on a number of key case studies which are crucial to understanding the complex web of political, economic and cultural factors that shape the heterogeneous picture of Europe's new geography.

This book provides a fresh view on this phenomenon, with a realistic approach shedding light on its complexity as well as on its ambiguities. The new macro-regions are interpreted with an approach recognizing the importance of institutionalization, but also their flexible configuration and "blurred" borders. The book also raises the issue of credibility and legitimacy, arguing that inter-regional cooperation has to be removed from the foggy realm of the exchanges between local political and bureaucratic elites in order to be clearly and concretely motivated, and functional to key strategic objectives of the regions. Finally, the authors suggest a complementarity between relations based on proximity and wider (possibly global) networks where some territories, and especially metropolises, find opportunities based on "virtual" proximity.

Europe's Changing Geography provides a substantial re-appraisal of a key phenomenon in the process of European integration today. It will be of interest both to scholars of the political economy of European regionalism and to practitioners.