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Territorial Politics

Territorial Politics. The Sub-State Arena. Some Issues. Centralisation and decentralisation National unity Self-determination Economic restructuring Paradox: Globalisation and European integration Increased decentralisation and fragmentation. Issues for this Seminar.

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Territorial Politics

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  1. Territorial Politics The Sub-State Arena

  2. Some Issues • Centralisation and decentralisation • National unity • Self-determination • Economic restructuring • Paradox: • Globalisation and European integration • Increased decentralisation and fragmentation

  3. Issues for this Seminar • Challenges to the Nation-State • Regionalisation and Regionalism • Stateless Nations • Multi-level Governance - is there a regional level of EU governance? • Case studies (F, D, E, UK) • A Europe of the Regions?

  4. Challenges to the Nation-State • Globalisation • Neo-liberal ideology • Interdependence - transnational organisations • Evolution of international law • Rise of transnational social movements • Communications revolution • European integration • Decentralisation since the 1960s • Regionalism and minority nationalism

  5. Regionalisation and Regionalism • Regional-isation and regional-ism • Why? • Uneven economic development • threats to regional cultures / languages - minority nationalism • decentralisation and federalisation • impacts of globalisation and European integration

  6. Stateless Nations • State and nation • Nations without states • What do they want? • Independence? • Autonomy? • Cultural recognition? • Repression and violence

  7. Regions of Europe

  8. Typology of Regionalisation • Administrative decentralisation • Devolution • Quasi, asymmetric federalism • Federation

  9. Typology of Regionalism Keating’s 6 ideal types: • conservative, reactionary regionalism • bourgeois regionalism • technocratic regionalism • progressive regionalism • populist regionalism • separatist movements

  10. A Regional Level of Governance? • Regionalisation and regionalism not uniform • Regions vary: • institutions, powers, policy-making capacity, financial resources, EU/state/region relations, economic development • Not a homogeneous level of governance • But a variety of new forms of territorial action • Constitutional regions

  11. Case Study - France • Archetypal nation state? • Decentralisation over last 40 years • Sub-state organisation • Centre-regional-local relations • Assessment

  12. Case Study - Germany • Character of the state • Federalism • The Länder • Division of powers • Federal-Länder relations • Assessment

  13. Case Study - Spain • State, nation and nationalities • Centralists, regionalists, federalists and separatists • Franco and repression • Transition and the ‘State of Autonomies’ • The Autonomous Communities • A federal state? • Assessment

  14. Case Study - UK • A multi-national state • Devolution: 1979 & 1997 • Asymmetric devolution • Scotland and Wales - autonomy or separation? • England - a problem? • Assessment

  15. A Europe of the Regions? • Early 1990s regionalists optimistic • ‘Third Level’? • Regions becoming more important than states? • EU - Committee of the Regions • However... • Heterogeneity - diversity - asymmetry • Lack of common cause • Disappointment with CoR and EU • Though … A Europe with the Regions?

  16. Territorial Politics - Summary • Changing patterns of governance in Europe • Multi-level governance? • Regional and sub-state diversity

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