Competitive European Peripheries

ISBN-13: 9783642799570 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 271 str.

Heikki Eskelinen; Folke Snickars

Opis

The cores and peripheries of Europe are experiencing a profound transformation. This calls for new perspectives in regional analysis. Increasingly, peripherality should be analysed in a network context. The contributions to this book claim that peripherality is being determined more by access to networks than by geographical location. A focal point is the experience of the Nordic countries. They form a particularly interesting case in assessing the prospects for the developing centre-periphery confrontation in Europe.

Spis treści

Competitive European Peripheries? An Introduction.- 1 Competitive European Peripheries? An Introduction.- I European Scene.- 2 The European Network Economy: Opportunities and Impediments.- 3 Regional Development, Federalism and Interregional Co-operation.- 4 Remaking Scale: Competition and Cooperation in Prenational and Postnational Europe.- 5 Cross-border Co-operation and European Regional Policy.- II Northern Lights.- 6 Europe of Regions — A Nordic View.- 7 Peripherality and European Integration: the Challenge Facing the Nordic Countries.- 8 Regional Development in the Nordic Periphery.- 9 The Fall and Revival of the Swedish Welfare Model: Spatial Implications.- 10 Are Leaping Frogs Freezing? Rural Peripheries in Competition.- 11 Internationalization from the European Fringe: the Experience of SMEs.- 12 The Social Construction of Peripherally: the Case of Finland and the Finnish-Russian Border Area.- Author Index.- Contributors.