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A 'Macro-regional' Europe in the Making

Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Evidence

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics (PSEUP)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
  2. Development of EU Macro-regional Strategies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
    2. Macro-regions and the European Union: The Role of Cohesion Policy

      • Irene McMaster, Arno van der Zwet
      Pages 47-71
  3. Theorizing Macroregionalization and Macro-regional Strategies in Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
    2. Macro-regional Strategies: Agents of Europeanization and Rescaling?

      • Dominic Stead, Franziska Sielker, Tobias Chilla
      Pages 99-120
  4. Governance Architecture and Impact of Macro-regional Strategies in Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
    2. The European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

      • Stefan Gänzle, Kristine Kern
      Pages 123-144
    3. The European Union Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region

      • Battistina Cugusi, Andrea Stocchiero
      Pages 169-188
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 269-280

About this book

Macro-regional strategies seek to improve the interplay of the EU with existing regimes and institutions, and foster coherence of transnational policies. Drawing on macro-regional governance and Europeanization, this edited volume provides an overview of processes of macro-regionalization in Europe displaying evidence of their significant impact.

Reviews

“This book clarifies the differences between these terms and their underlying concepts, and focuses in particular on ‘macro-regionalisation’, its empirical reality as well as its theoretical understanding. … The book makes an empirically important as well as theoretically insightful contribution to the (cross-disciplinary) study of regional dynamics in Europe.” (Gabriele Abels, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 69 (3), May, 2017)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Agder, Norway

    Stefan Gänzle

  • Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning, Germany

    Kristine Kern

  • University of Potsdam, Germany

    Kristine Kern

About the editors

Stefan Gänzle is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder, Norway.

Kristine Kern is Professor for the Governance of Urban Infrastructure and Global Change, Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS), and the University of Potsdam, Germany.

Bibliographic Information

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