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Comparative Regional Integration Studies
cross-border governance
Cross-border Regions
Crossborder Regions
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EU Institutional Framework
EU Policy Process
EU Study
EU's Contribution
EU's Internal Market
EU’s Contribution
EU’s Internal Market
federalism and devolution
Frankish Kingdom
Humanitarian Aid
integration
Internal EU Border
multilateral
Multilateral System
National Innovation Systems
order
political geography
processes
Region Building Processes
regional
regional governance transformation
Regional Integration
Regional Integration Schemes
regional integration theory
RTAs
schemes
separatist movements
Single Economic Space
social constructionism
sovereign
state
Sub-national Regions
Subnational Regions
Supra-national Regions
Van Langenhove
Van Middelaar
westphalian
Westphalian World Order
world
Product details
- ISBN 9781138268463
- Weight: 370g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Regions. How they emerge and how they are dramatically changing the appearance of the present 'world of states' and its related forms of governance from local to global levels is analysed in this monograph. But what are regions? Regions can be small or huge. They can be part of a single state, be composed out of different states or stretched out across borders. They can be important recognized economic, social or cultural entities or they can be largely ignored by the people who live on a region's territory. They can be well-defined with clear cut boundaries as is the case in so-called 'constitutional regions' or they can be fuzzy as for instance in cross-border regions. In sum, they are not a natural kind and defining regions is not a simple task. Luk Van Langenhove advances the concept of region building as an alternative to the construction of regions with three issues of region building being explored: - Why are regions built in a world of states? - How do region building processes take place? - How are regions transforming the present world order? Crossing disciplinary boundaries, this book is an exercise in theorizing regions and brings together under one conceptual framework, different processes and concepts such as regional integration, devolution, federalism, and separatism and refines the social constructionist view on regions
Dr. Luk Van Langenhove is Director of the Comparative Regional Integration Studies Institute of the United Nations University (UNU-CRIS,), Belgium
