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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