Europe's Changing Geography The Impact of Inter-regional Networks Regions and Cities Series
Coordonnateurs : Bellini Nicola, Hilpert Ulrich
European macro-regions, Euroregions and other forms of inter-regional, cross-border cooperation have 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.
Preface Nicola Bellini and Ulrich HilpertPart I: Introduction 1. Europe’s Changing Regional Geography: The impact of inter-regional networks Nicola Bellini and Ulrich HilpertPart II: New Challenges and New Patterns of Collaboration 2. European Macro-Regions as a New Dimension of European Geography: Networks of collaboration in the light of culture, history and language capabilities Alexander NaglerPart III: Europe’s New Regionalisation: The integration of regional activities through macroregions 3. The Baltic Sea Region: Who cooperates with whom, and why? Carsten Schymik 4. Towards a ‘Wide Area Co-operation’: The economic rationale and political feasibility of the Adriatic Euroregion Alberto Bramanti and Paolo Rosso 5. A Typology of Agents and Subjects of Regional Cooperation: The experience of the Mediterranean Arc Antoni Durà i Guimerà and Xavier Oliveras GonzálezPart IV: Europe’s Re-Regionalisation Across Borders 6. Transnational Infrastructure Projects and Their Impact on Region-Building in the Southwestern Baltic Sea Region Magdalena Schönweitz 7. Incentives and Obstacles to Cross-Border Cooperation in Post-Communist Central Europe Gergő Medve-Balint 8. The Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euroregion: Policy networks and institutional capacities Pilar Rodríguez Francesco Morata and Andrea NoferiniPart V: Conclusions 9. Europe’s Changing Geography in Perspective Nicola Bellini and Ulrich Hilpert
Nicola Bellini is Professor of Economics and Management at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy.
Ulrich Hilpert is Professor and Chair of Comparative Government at Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany.
Date de parution : 04-2013
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 01-2017
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes d’Europe's Changing Geography :
Mots-clés :
RSA; Regional Development; Regional Science; Regional Studies; Sally Hardy; Spatial Economics; The City; Urban Studies; European integration; integration; cross-border regions; macro-regions; regionalism; border region; economic geography; EU; European Union; regionalisation; geography; regional policy; Socio-economic Development; Socioeconomic Development; Fehmarn Belt; Wide Area Cooperation; Crossborder Initiatives; Macro-regional Integration; Baltic Sea Regions; Mediterranean Arc; INTERREG IIIC; Crossborder Cooperation; Cbc; Cross-border Initiatives; EU Funding; Territorial Cooperation; Phare Cbc; Macro-regional Strategy; Local Cross-border Cooperation; Oresund Region; Inter-regional Cooperation; Oresund Link; EU Strategy; Max Iv Lab; Scandinavian Link; Cross-border Cooperation Initiatives; Baltic Sea