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A ‘Macro-regional’ Europe in the MakingExploring European Union Macro-regional Strategies through the Lens of Multilevel Governance

A ‘Macro-regional’ Europe in the Making: Exploring European Union Macro-regional Strategies... [The term ‘region’ is normally used to denote a subnational authority located between the national centre and the local periphery, but it is also (with increasing frequency) used to denote a space of varying size with economic, social and cultural significance. Institutional regions have precise boundaries, defined powers and belong to nation states. Spatial regions, in contrast, have fuzzy borders, informal or derivative powers and may span across nation states. ‘Regionalization’ — the process through which regions develop or acquire new prominence — is therefore a polysemic word. Regionalization can denote the process of creating free trade areas, common markets and monetary unions among sovereign states (so it is synonymous with regional integration); it can indicate the process of political or administrative devolution to institutional tiers located below the national centre (as in regional decentralization); and it can indicate the creation of intermediate entities among sovereign states and subnational governments in order to jointly carry out certain activities (also denoted as sub- or macro-regionalization, see Gänzle and Kern, chapter 1 in this volume). Finally, it can indicate more bottom-up processes that do not generate any new institutional structures but are nevertheless characterized by intensified economic, social and cultural exchanges between the people living in contiguous or distant places (Fioramonti, 2012a, 2012b). This broader phenomenon is loosely indicated as ‘cross-border cooperation’ (CBC), regardless of whether such cooperation gives rise to mere agreements, working communities or novel institutional tiers. In all cases, the aim is to reap material and symbolic benefits.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A ‘Macro-regional’ Europe in the MakingExploring European Union Macro-regional Strategies through the Lens of Multilevel Governance

Part of the Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics Book Series
Editors: Gänzle, Stefan; Kern, Kristine
Piattoni, Simona
A ‘Macro-regional’ Europe in the Making — Dec 23, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
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978-1-349-55247-4
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75 –97
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10.1007/978-1-137-50972-7_4
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Abstract

[The term ‘region’ is normally used to denote a subnational authority located between the national centre and the local periphery, but it is also (with increasing frequency) used to denote a space of varying size with economic, social and cultural significance. Institutional regions have precise boundaries, defined powers and belong to nation states. Spatial regions, in contrast, have fuzzy borders, informal or derivative powers and may span across nation states. ‘Regionalization’ — the process through which regions develop or acquire new prominence — is therefore a polysemic word. Regionalization can denote the process of creating free trade areas, common markets and monetary unions among sovereign states (so it is synonymous with regional integration); it can indicate the process of political or administrative devolution to institutional tiers located below the national centre (as in regional decentralization); and it can indicate the creation of intermediate entities among sovereign states and subnational governments in order to jointly carry out certain activities (also denoted as sub- or macro-regionalization, see Gänzle and Kern, chapter 1 in this volume). Finally, it can indicate more bottom-up processes that do not generate any new institutional structures but are nevertheless characterized by intensified economic, social and cultural exchanges between the people living in contiguous or distant places (Fioramonti, 2012a, 2012b). This broader phenomenon is loosely indicated as ‘cross-border cooperation’ (CBC), regardless of whether such cooperation gives rise to mere agreements, working communities or novel institutional tiers. In all cases, the aim is to reap material and symbolic benefits.]

Published: Dec 23, 2015

Keywords: Member State; Lisbon Strategy; European Neighbourhood Policy; Multilevel Governance; Governance Architecture

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