Regional governance
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In recent years, there has been a resurgence of regionalism and regional initiatives in the Southwest Pacific, driven primarily by the Australian government. There is little doubt that the new regionalism has largely been prompted by the... more
Die Energiewende ist eines der entscheidenden Themen unserer Zeit. Neue regionale Formen der Steuerung, Koordination und Kooperation sind in diesem Kontext politisch wie wissenschaftlich viel diskutiert. Subsumiert unter dem Begriff... more
Asian urbanization has been typified by, among other things, the growth of rural-urban regions, in which functional urban areas have extended beyond established city boundaries into their immediate rural zones. In dealing with this... more
S ince its establishment in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has shown little interest in facilitating the participation of non-state actors in its decision-making processes. ASEAN is well-known for its elitist... more
This article examines the inward-out influence from Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) to extra-regionally based actors, here defined as non-ASEAN stakeholders, in regional cooperation on climate change. The case study on the... more
This research, conducted by the author when a Senior Researcher at Newcastle University, UK, was funded by a UK governance organisation to help them assess, integrate and improve their understanding of the governed population.... more
La crise économique a-t-elle recentralisée la décentralisation? L’hypothèse avancée ici est celle d’une poussée des dynamiques de métropolisation et de régionalisation en France sous la conjugaison de processus de convergence commun à... more
The paper reports on both methodological and substantive findings. It presents a method for generating simplified representations for regional urban populations, their geographical sub-populations and communities. the method generates... more
En el ámbito de descentralización política Chile destaca al ser una de las pocas democracias modernas donde las máximas autoridades subnacionales son designadas por el gobierno central, situación que cambiaría recién en 2020 donde serán... more
"The Southern African Development Community (SADC), a largely intergovernmental regional organization, established a regional tribunal with supranational features, only to suspend it after it produced an undesirable ruling. This... more
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The concept of post-hegemonic regionalism describes the scenario that characterised Latin American regionalism in the last two decades. It first builds from Amitav Acharya’s work where he envisages the end of United States hegemony and... more
Este artículo examina si el creciente papel de China en América Latina ha tenido un impacto significativo en la construcción de la gobernanza regional autónoma. Los autores plantean que la influencia china en este sentido ha sido... more
From Decentralisation of Planning to Peoples Planning - Experiences of the Indian States of Kerala and West Bengal by Charvak, 2000: The Discussion Paper attempts a comparison of the process of decentralisation of planning in the two... more
The traditional dominance of Western state and non-state actors in the governance of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) has frequently led to frictions around questions of sovereignty and authority. Affected states often... more
The article examines Nigeria‘s place in international political system in relation to the concept of hegemony. It seeks to assess the scholarly claim of Nigeria as a regional hegemon in Africa. The unclear classification of some countries... more
The basic idea of this paper is to present the French approach to regional geopolitics with some basic information on French geopolitics in general. We shall commence with a few core questions: What is geopolitics? Does it give the... more
In the initial part of the article its author presents basic information about Polish special economic zones. Next there are discussed variants of obtaining regional assistance by entrepreneurs investing in SEZs. Particular emphasis is... more
This book analyzes the social forces and political coalitions driving regional integration projects in Asia with a focus on ASEAN and Indonesian conglomerates. It asks which social forces, within the domestic political economy of Asian... more
On 1 July 2016 the presidents of Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru celebrated the 11th Summit of the Pacific Alliance (PA) in Puerto Varas, Chile. The members quite successfully practise a kind of joint “nation-branding” to promote trade... more
In 2020, in the new EU strategic horizon1 that is opening at present, the place should matter more than ever when it refers to territories that are envisaged from the Social Innovation paradigm (Moulaert2, Mulgan3 and Morgan4).... more
The study of regionalism is often characterised as too fragmented, plagued by disagreements over such fundamental matters as its ontological and epistemological premises, which also hinder efforts at substantive comparison of... more
This article examines the inward–out influence from Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) to extra-regionally based actors, here defined as non-ASEAN stakeholders, in regional cooperation on climate change. The case study on the... more
It is widely accepted that sustainable regional development can only be achieved if the concept of sustainability is strongly connected with innovation and improvement of regional governance. This task is extremely important yet demanding... more
Gone are the days when the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was the sole business of national leaders, high-level officials, and the intellectual elites of the region. ASEAN has come a long way from being an entirely... more
This article scrutinizes the everlasting but transforming significance of the concept of region for regional studies and social practice. After tracing the changing meanings of this category the paper highlights one characteristic aspect... more
El Programa Ciudadanía y Gestión Pública de la Universidad de Los Lagos ha desarrollado el Estudio “Actores y Articulación para la Descentralización en Tres Regiones de Chile”. Su propósito ha sido identificar y analizar las condiciones... more