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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973528303321

Titolo

De-coding new regionalism : shifting socio-political contexts in Central Europe and Latin America / / edited by James W. Scott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2009

ISBN

1-315-57617-1

1-317-15382-0

1-317-15381-2

1-281-96876-5

9786611968762

0-7546-8901-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Urban and regional planning and development

Altri autori (Persone)

ScottJames Wesley

Disciplina

307.1/20943

Soggetti

Regional planning - Europe, Central

Regional planning - Latin America

Regionalism - Europe, Central

Regionalism - Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Part 1 Introduction: Aims and Outline of the book; 1 Introduction; Part 2 Systemic Transformation and the Politics of Scale; 2 Systemic Transformation and the Implementation of New Regionalist Paradigms: Experiences of Central Europe and Latin America; 3 Between Crisis and Adaptation: Economic Aspects of Institutional Change in Latin America and Central Europe; 4 Policies of Regionalization in a Transformational Context: Some Conceptual Considerations; 5 Regions, New Regionalism and Regime Theory: Deciphering Post-Socialist Institutional Change

Part 3 Case Studies of Region-building in Latin America6 An Indecisive New Regionalism in Mexico? The Case of Jalisco; 7 Decentralization and Regions in Brazil: An Economic Development Perspective; 8 Redefining Regional Policies in Venezuela: From Decentralization to Recentralization; Part 4 Case Studies of Region-building in Central Europe; 9 Regional Development and'New' Regionalism in Poland; 10



Regionalization in Hungary: Options and Scenarios on the 'Road to Europe'; 11 'Reaching for the Stars': East German Urban Regions and the Vicissitudes of Place-Making

12 The Emergence of New Regionsin Transition RomaniaPart 5 Conclusion; 13 New Regionalism and Evolving Territorialities of the State; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Bringing together comparative case studies from Central Europe and South America, this book focuses on 'new' regions - regions created as political projects of modernization and 're-scaling'. Through this approach it de-codes 'New Regionalism' in terms of its contributions to institutional change, while acknowledging its contested nature and contradictions.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910345124003321

Titolo

International issues & Slovak foreign policy affairs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bratislava, : Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, 2006-

ISSN

1336-0361

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

International relations

Publications périodiques

Relations extérieures

Relations internationales

international relations

diplomatic relations

foreign policy

Slovakia

Diplomatic relations

Periodicals.

Slovakia Foreign relations Periodicals

Slovaquie

Slovakia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Title from cover.