A 'Macro-regional' Europe in the Making - Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Evidence
KERN Kristine , GANZLE Stefan
Product details
- Categories: Governance & Politics, Regional Policy
- Publisher: PALGRAVE-MACMILLAN
- Collection: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
- ISBN: 9781137509710
- Publication Date: 21/10/2015
- Binding: Paperback
- Number of pages: 312
- Language: English
Summary
European Union (EU) macro-regional strategies, such as the ones composed for the Adriatic Ionian, Alpine, Baltic Sea and Danube regions, aim to improve transnational cooperation and coordination in a 'territorially defined' setting. These strategies propose an integrated framework for cooperation involving a wide range of EU member states, regional organisations, sub-national authorities, civil society organisations as well as non-EU partner countries.
The contributors question whether macro-regional strategies are helpful instruments for improving actor-policy linkages at the European, member/partner countries, and sub-national levels, and whether the objective of social, economic and territorial cohesion can be fulfilled through these strategies.
Table of contents
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Macro-regions, 'Macro-regionalization' and Macro-regional Strategies in the European Union (EU): Toward a New Form of European Governance?; Stefan Gänzle and Kristine Kern
PART II: DEVELOPMENT OF EU MACRO-REGIONAL STRATEGIES
2. From Subregionalism to Macro-regionalism in Europe and the European Union; Martin Dangerfield
3. Macro-regions and the EU: The Role of Cohesion Policy; Irene McMaster and Arno van der Zwet
PART III: THEORIZING MACRO-REGIONALIZATION AND MACRO-REGIONAL STRATEGIES IN EUROPE
4. Exploring EU Macro-regional Strategies through the Lens of Multilevel Governance; Simona Piattoni
5. Macro-regional Strategies: Agents of Europeanization and Rescaling?; Dominic Stead, Franziska Sielker and Tobias Chilla
PART IV: GOVERNANCE ARCHITECTURE AND IMPACT OF MACRO-REGIONAL STRATEGIES IN EUROPE
6. The European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region; Stefan Gänzle and Kristine Kern
7. The European Union Strategy for the Danube Region; Attila Ágh
8. The European Union Strategy for the Adriatic Ionian Region; Battistina Cugusi and Andrea Stocchiero
9. The European Union Strategy for the Alpine Region; Jörg Balsiger
10. North Sea Macro-region? Partnerships, Networking and Macro-regional Dimensions; Mike Danson
11. The Atlantic Arc: A Macro-region in the Making?; Mark Wise