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The new regionalism in Western Europe. Territorial restructuring and political change:
In the 1990s, the states of Western Europe face twin challenges, from above in the shape of globalisation and European integration, and from below in the form of new regionalist movements. In this book Michael Keating traces the historical origins of regionalism, showing that territorial politics has always been a feature of the West European state. He then analyses the post-war model of territorial management in the Keynesian welfare state, and shows how current trends are reshaping the meaning of political space and encouraging new forms of political mobilisation and action. This new regionalism is no longer contained within the nation state so that regions must face the global market and an integrating Europe directly. Michael Keating argues that regionalism is a complex phenomenon, spanning culture, economics, politics and policy. It takes different forms in different settings, shaped by the imperatives of economic competition in a global age, as well as by political forces within the regions themselves. There is a discussion of regionalism as a strategy for economic development, of the emergence of a regional level of government and of regions with the European Union.
Keating, Michael
The new regionalism in Western Europe. Territorial restructuring and political change
Edward Elgar, 1998
ISBN: 1-85898-527-7
Price: £49.95
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