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{"title":"EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region","authors":"Zane Sime","doi":"10.3167/reco.2020.100310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/reco.2020.100310","url":null,"abstract":"Support to the strategy – involving actors from all Baltic Sea Region Countries Norwegian regions are actively involved in Baltic Sea Region co-operation – through different Baltic Sea organisations, through participation in cross-boarder and transnational cooperation programmes (Interreg) and by taking part in projects as well as bilateral cooperation measures. Eastern Norway County Network strongly supports the development of an EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region and will like to contribute to the consultation process with some views from the side of Norwegian regions.","PeriodicalId":37930,"journal":{"name":"Regions and Cohesion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74337141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Explaining sustainable regional integration to my parents","authors":"Zenyram Koff Maganda","doi":"10.3167/reco.2020.100313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/reco.2020.100313","url":null,"abstract":"I have been immersed in sustainable development and regional integration since I was a baby through the activities of the RISC Consortium. I have met people coming from different parts of the world to discuss their regions and how they affect communities. I have had the opportunity to travel and see how life is in different world regions, how people are the same, and how they are different. One day, my parents asked me to explain to them what “sustainable regional integration” means. This is my answer.","PeriodicalId":37930,"journal":{"name":"Regions and Cohesion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73153279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rethinking “new regionalisms” out of Africa 2020","authors":"T. Shaw, Abigail Kabandula","doi":"10.3167/reco.2020.100308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/reco.2020.100308","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article suggests that the quarter of the world’s states that are African can yet contribute to new “developmental” regionalisms in theory and practice, as the North enters a period of ambivalence about, if not retreat from, positive global engagement. This article builds on the pioneering analysis of Björn Hettne with Inotai on new regionalism and the related contributions out of contemporary “development” studies by Jan Nederveen Pieterse on East-South relations and Oliver Stuenkel on a non-Western world.Resumen:Este artículo sugiere que la cuarta parte de los Estados del mundo que son africanos pueden todavía contribuir a nuevos regionalismos “desarrollistas” (DR) en la teoría y en la práctica, a medida que el Norte entra en un período de ambivalencia sobre, si no de retractación de, su compromiso global positivo. Este artículo se basa en el análisis pionero de Björn Hettne con Inotai sobre el nuevo regionalismo y las contribuciones conexas de los estudios contemporáneos sobre “desarrollo” de Jan Nederveen Pieterse sobre las relaciones Este–Sur y Oliver Stuenkel sobre un mundo no occidental.Résumé:Cet article suggère que le quart des États du monde qui sont africains peuvent encore contribuer à de nouveaux régionalismes “développementaux” (DR) en théorie et en pratique, alors que le Nord entre dans une période d’ambivalence, voire de retrait, quant à son engagement mondial. Cet essai s’appuie sur l’analyse pionnière de Hettne et Inotai (1994) concernant le nouveau régionalisme et sur les contributions connexes des études contemporaines relatives au “développement” de Pieterse (2011) et les relations Est-Sud et de Stuenkel (2015 & 2016) pour le monde non occidental.","PeriodicalId":37930,"journal":{"name":"Regions and Cohesion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77292167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ten years later","authors":"Leonardo Morlino","doi":"10.3167/reco.2020.100301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/reco.2020.100301","url":null,"abstract":"A decade ago, Regions & Cohesion started with an editorial article by Harlan Koff and Carmen Maganda, who proposed launching “a multilingual (English, French, and Spanish) and interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of the human and environmental impacts of regional integration as well as governance processes.”","PeriodicalId":37930,"journal":{"name":"Regions and Cohesion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85882433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A supposed fifth wave of Latin American regionalism and human needs","authors":"S. Dubé","doi":"10.3167/reco.2020.100307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/reco.2020.100307","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the evolution, between 2010 and 2020, of the organizations created during the Latin American post–liberal regionalism wave It describes their rise and decline and includes recent public opinion data to claim that there is no demand or supply for an eventual fifth wave of regionalism that would replicate the previous models Considering the failure of national governments in fulfilling basic human needs, it nonetheless claims that the deepening of the critical social and economic conditions, especially in the COVID-19 pandemic context, could lead to a fifth wave of regionalism in Latin America Nevertheless, to succeed, such a wave could be inspired by international and regional technical organizations in a way that would recall the principles of David Mitrany’s functionalist theory © 2020","PeriodicalId":37930,"journal":{"name":"Regions and Cohesion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90202976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A new research agenda to move beyond (a)gendered regions","authors":"A. Szary","doi":"10.3167/reco.2020.100304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/reco.2020.100304","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Based on an extensive bibliographical review of the region–gender nexus, the article first assesses the quasi inexistence of gender issues in regional journals and the symmetrical absence of regional issues in gender publications. In so doing, it establishes the specific positioning of the Regions & Cohesion journal within that broad panorama. In launching an agenda to reverse that trend, the text then sets to offer two goals for future research and publication: (1) gendering the people, feminizing the regions; (2) queering the regions: the transborder condition as an inspiration.Resumen: Con base en una extensa revisión bibliográfica de la producción científica sobre el vínculo entre región y género, este artículo comienza estableciendo la virtual inexistencia de temas de género en las publicaciones científicas de estudios regionales y la simétrica ausencia de los temas regionales en las revistas de estudios de género. Al hacerlo, establece la posición específica de la revista Regions & Cohesion dentro de este amplio panorama. El texto procede a proveer las bases de un programa encaminado a invertir esta tendencia, proponiendo dos objetivos para las investigaciones y publicaciones futuras: (1) dar un género a “la gente” que compone las regiones, feminizándolas; (2): “queering the regions”, analizar las regiones con lentes “queer”, observando la condición transfronteriza como fuente de inspiración en este campo.Résumé: Sur la base d’une analyse bibliographique approfondie de la production scientifique concernant les liens entre région et genre, cet article commence par établir la quasi-inexistence des questions de genre dans les publications scientifiques en études régionales et celle, symétrique, des questions régionales dans les revues en études de genre. Ce faisant, il établit la position spécifique de la revue Regions & Cohesion au sein de ce panorama très large. Le texte procède enfin à poser les fondations d’un agenda destiné à inverser cette tendance et ce, en proposant deux objectifs pour les recherches et les publications à venir : 1/ Donner un genre aux « gens » qui composent les régions en les féminisant : 2/ « Queering the regions », c’est-à-dire faire passer les régions au crible d’une grille de lecture « queer », l’analyse de la condition transfrontière pouvant servir de source d’inspiration dans ce domaine.","PeriodicalId":37930,"journal":{"name":"Regions and Cohesion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73691295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Ukrainian divide","authors":"Alina Penkala, I. Derluyn, Ine Lietaert","doi":"10.3167/reco.2020.100311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/reco.2020.100311","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Ukraine is usually portrayed as a cleft country with a determining internal East–West divide. However, critical researchers in Ukrainian scholarship emphasize that the East–West paradigm fails to adequately reflect the complex reality of the Ukrainian society and its historical, linguistic, economic, and political mixture. This article deconstructs the origins and evolution of the eastern and western Ukrainian identities and argues that the current clash between the two regions should not be explained by linguistic and ethnic differences, geopolitical strategies, economic interests, or political gains but rather by symbolic geographies, historical myths, and political imaginations. As a consequence, Ukraine is unable to make clear choices about its geopolitical future and remains a liminal space of east and west, where the broader EU-centered and Russia-centered regions overlap.Resumen: Ucrania suele ser retratada como un país caracterizado por una división interna determinante entre el este y el oeste. Sin embargo, algunos investigadores critican este paradigma Este-Oeste, que no refleja la compleja realidad de la sociedad ucraniana y su mezcla histórica, lingüística, económica y política. En este artículo se deconstruyen los orígenes y la evolución de las identidades ucranianas orientales y occidentales y se argumenta que el actual choque entre las dos regiones debería explicarse por el nuevo enfoque de geografías simbólicas, mitos históricos e imaginaciones políticas. En caso contrario, Ucrania no puede tomar decisiones claras sobre su futuro geopolítico y sigue siendo un espacio liminal de este y oeste, donde se superponen las regiones más amplias centradas en la UE y en Rusia, respectivamente.Résumé: L’Ukraine est généralement présentée comme un pays avec une division interne Est-Ouest déterminante. Cependant, des chercheurs ukrainiens critiquent ce paradigme Est-Ouest, qui ne reflèterait pas la réalité complexe de la société ukrainienne ni son mélange historique, linguistique, économique et politique. Cet article déconstruit les origines et l’évolution des identités ukrainiennes orientales et occidentales et soutient que le conflit qui les oppose actuellement devrait être expliqué par la nouvelle approche des géographies symboliques, des mythes historiques et des imaginations politiques. A défaut, l’Ukraine est incapable de faire des choix clairs quant à son avenir géopolitique et reste un espace liminaire entre l’Est et l’Ouest, où les régions plus larges centrées sur l’UE et la Russie se chevauchent.","PeriodicalId":37930,"journal":{"name":"Regions and Cohesion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73667074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ten years of re-thinking regions from citizens’ perspectives","authors":"H. Koff, Carmen Maganda, P. Lombaerde, E. Kauffer, Julia Ros Cuellar","doi":"10.3167/reco.2020.100302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/reco.2020.100302","url":null,"abstract":"The year 2020 has been challenging due to the different overlapping crises related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is difficult to celebrate amidst the awareness of the worst global suffering in generations. Nonetheless, we consider ourselves extremely fortunate to commemorate ten years of Regions & Cohesion. It is not lost on us that our commemoration occurs amidst the above-cited crises. The inaugural issue of Regions & Cohesion\u0000(2011) was entitled “Regiones, régions, regions, everywhere. . . . But what about the people?” It noted that regional integration had proliferated throughout the 1990s and early 2000s to the point that some scholarship was suggesting that regions could one day substitute nation-states as prominent actors in global affairs. The opening editorial of this issue noted that successful region-building, at the supranational, transnational, and sub-national level was measured in terms of economic prosperity and political stability. The inaugural issue questioned this approach by studying how well regions respond to the needs of citizens. It asked whether regions serve the needs of their people or whether people serve the needs of regional economies. The coronavirus-related crises have merely emphasized many of the shortcomings of regions and regionalisms that this journal has documented throughout its first decade of existence.","PeriodicalId":37930,"journal":{"name":"Regions and Cohesion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75537795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Revisiting Europe in search of regional cohesion","authors":"J. Agnew","doi":"10.3167/reco.2020.100303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/reco.2020.100303","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The regions–cohesion nexus focuses on how much people and place “prosperity” cannot be readily distinguished but are intimately connected. After reviewing some older sources on this logic, the article examines the current status of social cohesion within the European Union and what the future might hold depending on how much a crucial balance between global competitiveness and social cohesion is restored as the centerpiece of the supranational union. Current trends point in different directions, so critical choices will have to be made if the European Union as a whole is to survive and prosper. The income and fiscal divides between East and West and North and South should be the primary focus for rehabilitating the regions–cohesion nexus.Resumen: El nexo regiones–cohesión se centra en la difi cultad de distinguir las personas de los lugares en “prosperidad”, porque están intrínsecamente conectados. Después de revisar algunas referencias clásicas sobre esta lógica, este artículo examina el estado actual de la cohesión social dentro de la UE y lo que puede deparar el futuro dependiendo de cuánto se puede restablecer un equilibrio crucial entre la competitividad global y la cohesión social, como pieza central de la unión supranacional. Las tendencias actuales apuntan en diferentes direcciones. Será necesario tomar decisiones críticas para que la UE en su conjunto pueda sobrevivir y prosperar. El ingreso y las divisiones fiscales entre Oriente y Occidente, Norte y Sur, deberían ser el foco principal de atención para rehabilitar el nexo regiones–cohesión.Résumé: L’étude du lien entre régions et cohésion montre l’interdépendance qui existe entre la prospérité des peuples de celles des lieux. A partir d’une revue de la bibliographie sur ce sujet, cet article examine l’état actuel de la cohésion sociale à l’intérieur de l’Union européenne. Il s’intéresse également à son futur et à l’importance de la restauration d’un équilibre entre la compétitivité globale et la cohésion sociale en faveur de l’union supranationale. Les tendances actuelles indiquent différentes directions de telle manière que des choix critiques devront être faits pour que l’EU dans son ensemble survive et prospère. Le nivelement des disparités salariales et fiscales entre l’Est et l’Ouest et le Nord et le Sud devrait être le premier objectif visant à réhabiliter le lien entre régions et cohésion.","PeriodicalId":37930,"journal":{"name":"Regions and Cohesion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84581000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The West Africa Institute’s (WAI) contribution to the ECOWAS Post 2020 Vision","authors":"Djénéba Traoré","doi":"10.3167/reco.2020.100309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/reco.2020.100309","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article addresses the commitments of ECOWAS to citizen\u0000perspectives, and it underlines the added value of scientifi c research in the\u0000successful achievement of regional integration for West Africans. Specifi -\u0000cally, it asks, how can the eff ectiveness and relevance of academic studies\u0000be used to enhance economic growth and social development? The creation\u0000of the West Africa Institute (WAI), a research center and think tank\u0000dedicated to regional integration and social transformations, was a major\u0000step in the search for adequate local and regional development solutions\u0000fi 􀄴 ing with the West African context. WAI works with a participatory\u0000approach, promoting free debates among policy makers, open spaces for\u0000dialogue, and exchange among all social actors concerned with issues of\u0000regional integration and social transformation.Resumen: Este artículo analiza los compromisos de la CEDEAO en términos\u0000de perspectivas ciudadanas y enfatiza el valor agregado de la investigación\u0000científi ca en el éxito de la integración regional para África\u0000Occidental. Específi camente, pregunta cómo la efi ciencia y relevancia de\u0000los estudios universitarios pueden usarse para mejorar el crecimiento\u0000económico y el desarrollo social. La creación del Instituto de África Occidental\u0000(IAO) fue un paso importante en la búsqueda de soluciones para\u0000un desarrollo apropiado, adaptado a los contextos local y regional de\u0000África Occidental. La IAO trabaja con un enfoque participativo promoviendo\u0000el fl ujo libre de debates entre los tomadores de decisiones y espacios\u0000abiertos para el diálogo e intercambio entre todos los actores sociales\u0000interesados en temas de integración regional y transformación social.Résumé: Cet article traite des engagements de la CEDEAO en matière\u0000de perspectives citoyennes et met l’accent sur la valeur ajoutée de la\u0000recherche scientifi que dans la réussite de l’intégration régionale pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest. Plus précisément, il étudie comment l’effi cacité et la\u0000pertinence de la recherche scientifi que peuvent être utilisées pour améliorer\u0000la croissance économique et le développement social. La création\u0000de l’Institut de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (IAO), un centre de recherche et un\u0000groupe de réfl exion dédié à l’intégration régionale et aux transformations\u0000sociales, a été une étape majeure dans la recherche de solutions de développement\u0000local et régional adéquates adaptées au contexte ouest-africain.\u0000L’IAO travaille avec une approche participative, favorisant la libre\u0000circulation des débats entre les décideurs et des espaces ouverts pour\u0000le dialogue et l’échange entre tous les acteurs sociaux concernés par les\u0000questions d’intégration régionale et de transformation sociale.","PeriodicalId":37930,"journal":{"name":"Regions and Cohesion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84899559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}