European Regions : Perspectives, Trends and Developments in the 21st Century / Elisabeth Donat, Sarah Meyer, Gabriele Abels

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910487542603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020
• ISBN: 9783732850693; 3732850692; 9783839450697; 3839450691
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Collana: Edition Politik
• Disciplina: 341.2422
• Soggetti: Regions; European Integration; Multilevel Governance; Trends; Democracy; Political Science; Europe; Politics; European Politics; International Relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface 9 European Regions 11 Regional Identity between Inclusion and Exclusion 25 Regional Europeans 43 Ambiguous Identities at the Rhine border 59 Regional Identities in Europe 83 Scottish Independence 99 True Bavarians 117 Can Money Buy Love? 129 The EU's Regional Investments After the Financial Crisis 145 Cross-border Cooperation in Central Europe 163 New Multi-Level Governance in the EU? 195 Small is Beautiful? 211 'Europe of the Regions' 231 Authors Register 245
• Sommario/riassunto: At the beginning of the 21st century, the EU is facing deep political, social, and economic changes. The benefit of supranational ; organization is no longer obvious to European citizens and questions of legitimacy have accompanied the EU's development over the last decades. Regions – albeit often deemed »obsolete« – present themselves as stable and reliable partners in this turbulent environment: in being important objects of identification to their citizens, but also relevant political and legal entities in the EU's multilevel governance system. This edited volume asks about the role of regions and regional identity in a European Union that is perhaps struggling more than ever about its future.