Cross-Border Policies and Spatial and Social Integration: Between Challenges and Problems

• Authors: Bufon, Milan

Abstracts

EN

The article is discussing both challenges and problems that emerge from an intensified cross-border integration, particularly in Europe, which is creating a sort of ‘cross-border regionalism’ that might be sought as a new constituent part of a complex, multi-level system of governance incorporating not only national, but also local/regional agents. Cross-border regionalism is thus not only a system of government, but also a system of ‘grass-rooted’ social and spatial (re)integration of borderlands. This process is closely related to the question of changing territoriality, preserving on the one hand the regional control and on the other hand re-acting societal and territorial co-dependence.

Keywords

EN

cross-border politics; spatial integration; Europe

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: European Spatial Research and Policy
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 2

Dates

published

2011-11-30

Contributors

author

Bufon, Milan

other

Institute for Geographical Studies, University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/10877