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NEWSLETTER

Registration number 5917
del 31/10/2005
registrato presso il Tribunale
di Torino - Ufficio Stampa

ISSN: 2039-7488

Special Issue

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INDEX

Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government

Section B) Global governance and international organizations

Section C) Regional integration processes

Section D) Federalism as a political idea

Section C) Regional integration processes
Subsection 1.Theory of regional integration processes

Van Langenhove Luk

Building Regions. The Regionalization of the World Order

Ed. Ashgate , Aldershot , 2011
Page 198
ISBN 978-1-4094-1952-5

Regions. How they emerge and how they are dramatically changing the appearance of the present 'world of states' and its related forms of governance from local to global levels is analysed in this monograph. But what are regions? Regions can be small or huge. They can be part of a single state, be composed out of different states or stretched out across borders. They can be important recognized economic, social or cultural entities or they can be largely ignored by the people who live on a region's territory. They can be well-defined with clear cut boundaries as is the case in so-called 'constitutional regions' or they can be fuzzy as for instance in cross-border regions. In sum, they are not a natural kind and defining regions is not a simple task. Luk Van Langenhove advances the concept of region building as an alternative to the construction of regions with three issues of region building being explored: - Why are regions built in a world of states? - How do region building processes take place? - How are regions transforming the present world order? Crossing disciplinary boundaries, this book is an exercise in theorizing regions and brings together under one conceptual framework, different processes and concepts such as regional integration, devolution, federalism, and separatism and refines the social constructionist view on regions

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Contents

Introduction

Series : The International Political Economy of New Regionalisms Series

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