The 1990 saw debates about the role of regions in European integration. The significance of regional tiers of government in EU politics has been boosted by changes in EU structural funding rules, the innovations of the Maastricht Treaty, and the growing importance of federal and regional government within member states. The effect has been to shift the balance of decision-making responsibility within the EU to a third (regional) level of government emerging in the EU policy process alongside the first (union) and second (member state) levels. As result, a system of multi-level governance can...
The 1990 saw debates about the role of regions in European integration. The significance of regional tiers of government in EU politics has been boost...
Devolution is firmly back on the British political agenda since a Labour government committed to its introduction was elected by a massive majority on 1 May 1997, and the Conservative Party was wiped out in both Scotland and Wales.
Devolution is firmly back on the British political agenda since a Labour government committed to its introduction was elected by a massive majority on...
Devolution is firmly back on the British political agenda since a Labour government committed to its introduction was elected by a massive majority on 1 May 1997, and the Conservative Party was wiped out in both Scotland and Wales.
Devolution is firmly back on the British political agenda since a Labour government committed to its introduction was elected by a massive majority on...
This work contributes to a better understanding of the growing subnational involvement in foreign affairs. It offers a general view of the most prominent aspects in the development of subnational foreign action around the world, dealing with topics such as the repercussions upon subnational autonomy of the progressive constitution of diverse international regimes like the European Union, NAFTA, and APEC, or the complex relation between the growing subnational foreign action and the contemporary conditions for the formulation and implementation of foreign policy in federal and quasifederal...
This work contributes to a better understanding of the growing subnational involvement in foreign affairs. It offers a general view of the most promin...
The process of devolution in Spain was initiated with the transition to democracy after the death of General Franco. Since 1978, the country has gone through a simultaneous process of democratization and federalization. The first chapter in this volume discusses theoretical concepts, such as ethnic group, nation-state, nationalism, or federalism. A review of the historical background of plural Spain is followed by an analysis of the transfers of political to historical nationalities (Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia) and regions. The final chapters deal with the dual identity expressed...
The process of devolution in Spain was initiated with the transition to democracy after the death of General Franco. Since 1978, the country has gone ...
Borders increasingly capture the attention of policy-makers and scholars across Europe. The deepening and widening of the European Union, the spread of Euroregions, and the creation of new states in eastern Europe since the early 1990s have thrown the changing internal and external borders of the EU into sharp relief. Globalization has brought more widespread and fundamental changes, with increased cross-border flows of goods, capital, information and people.
Borders increasingly capture the attention of policy-makers and scholars across Europe. The deepening and widening of the European Union, the spread o...
