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Dr. Paul Stubbs (pstubbs@eizg.hr) The Institute of Economics, Zagreb Brussels 11 October 2012

Dr. Paul Stubbs (pstubbs@eizg.hr) The Institute of Economics, Zagreb Brussels 11 October 2012. Territorial cooperation and new Regionalism: a view from South East Europe Troubling Multilevel Governance: Coordinating Spatial Interventions . The Problems of ‘Multi-level Governance’.

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Dr. Paul Stubbs (pstubbs@eizg.hr) The Institute of Economics, Zagreb Brussels 11 October 2012

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  1. Dr. Paul Stubbs (pstubbs@eizg.hr) The Institute of Economics, Zagreb Brussels 11 October 2012 Territorial cooperation and new Regionalism: a view from South East EuropeTroubling Multilevel Governance: Coordinating Spatial Interventions

  2. The Problems of ‘Multi-level Governance’ • Levels are not discrete and territorially bounded (co-constitution of the local, regional and global) • Discourse moves quickly from ‘what is’ to ‘what should be’ • Too much realist ideal type abstract modelling • Neo-pluralist theory of power relations • Implicitly nation-state centric

  3. New Regionalism • Not only sets of relations between ‘sovereign’ nation states • Regions (above and below the nation-state) not fixed entities but shifting, contested and unfinished social and political constructs • Regionalism as a set of multi-actor, multi-dimensional, multi-scalar processes consisting of complex and variable geometries of interlocking networks • Regions as imaginaries but not arbitrary – power matters • Includes social dimension (not a ‘race to the bottom)

  4. Dominant Discourses of South East Europe • Balkanism – orientalist discourse of the permanent peripheral other (ancient ethnic hatreds) • Realpolitik – regional political co-operation as a prelude to and preparation for “Euro-Atlantic integration” • Realekonomie – expanding economic space for neo-liberal trade relations • Post-Balkanist – questioning historic power structures – regional building – ownership - flexibility

  5. Variable Geometries and Flexible Schemes • Expansion of ‘cross-border co-operation’ creates innovative modes of governance • New social movements (new social energy) are challenging commodification and re-claiming public space • Independent artistic and cultural collaborations are re-configuring regional identifications • Fluid and flexible programmes create moments of symbolic exchange based on hybrid and multiple lived experiences

  6. The future of Euro-regions and Cross-border co-operation • Re-scaling – spatial reconfiguration of social processes – interlocking networks of exchange NOT new level of governance • Beyond strict national sovereign parameters – disaggregating and re-aggregating political, economic and social spaces • Focus on flows more than on institutions • Creation of transnational public spheres • Smaller, multiple, flexible schemes

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