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Territorial politics in Europe : a zero-sum game? The new regionalism territorial competition and polittical restructuring in western Europe / Michael Keating

Keating, Michael, 1950-

EUI working papers . Florence : European University Institute, No 39 (1998), 24 p.

Documento integral disponível em: https://cadmus.eui.eu/

In both economics and politics, parallel trends have been observed in contemporary Europe, towards Europeanization and regionalization. After a period in which European integration and regional assertion were seen as somehow contradictory, they are increasingly seen as complementary, serving to restructure economic and political space and create new systems of action. Similarly, economic restructuring and political change are, in a new version of functionalist theory, often seen as causally connected not, this time, at the level of Europe or of the nation state, but at that of the region. I argue in this paper that these processes are indeed connected, but not in a deterministic or teleological manner. There is an autonomous role for politics and ideology in mediating the relationship between economic and political change, and between European integration and regional assertion. This creates distinct patterns of territorial restructuring in different places and gives rise to distinct development projects within the European and global market. The "new regionalism", unlike previous forms of territorial politics, is shaped not merely by the state but by the international economic context and the emerging international and continental regimes. Over-generalized explanations, and under-operationalized concepts proliferate, which do not help us to understand this complexity and variation and can distract attention from issues of power and distribution formerly central to the concerns of students of politics. In the absence of general theory, we need more comparative analysis; and we need to make explicit the normative bias of much of the analysis. We do not yet know enough about the emergence of regions as territorial systems of action. Explanations tend to be divided between those that focus exclusively on present-day factors such as global economic change or European integration, and historically reductionist accounts, wedded to path dependency. What is needed is an approach that takes account both of the existence of historical materials rooted in culture and social practices, and of the adaptation of these in contemporary circumstances. Regions, like Europe and like nation states in their day, are systems of action in the making. [Do autor]

regionalização; integração europeia; regionalismo

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