Building Regions - The Regionalization of the World Order (Hardcover, New Ed)

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

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	New Regionalisms Series
Release date:	May 2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Luk van Langenhove
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	198
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-4094-1952-5
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General
LSN:	1-4094-1952-5
Barcode:	9781409419525

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