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Record Nr.

UNISA996360037203316

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020

ISBN

3-7328-5069-2

3-8394-5069-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Edition Politik ; 92

Disciplina

341.2422

Soggetti

Regions; European Integration; Multilevel Governance; Trends; Democracy; Political Science; Europe; Politics; European Politics; International Relations

European Union countries Politics and government 21st century

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.