Macro-regional strategies seek to improve the interplay of the EU with existing regimes and institutions, and foster coherence of transnational policies. Drawing on macro-regional governance and Europeanization, this edited volume provides an overview of processes of macro-regionalization in Europe displaying evidence of their significant impact.

This book clarifies the differences between these terms and their underlying concepts, and focuses in particular on 'macro-regionalisation', its empirical reality as well as its theoretical understanding. The book makes an empirically important as well as theoretically insightful contribution to the (cross-disciplinary) study of regional dynamics in Europe. (Gabriele Abels, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 69 (3), May, 2017)

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Stefan Gänzle is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder, Norway.

Kristine Kern is Professor for the Governance of Urban Infrastructure and Global Change, Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS), and the University of Potsdam, Germany.

Inhalt
PART I: INTRODUCTION

1. Macro-regions, 'Macro-regionalization' and Macro-regional Strategies in the European Union (EU): Toward a New Form of European Governance?; Stefan Gänzle and Kristine Kern

PART II: DEVELOPMENT OF EU MACRO-REGIONAL STRATEGIES

2. From Subregionalism to Macro-regionalism in Europe and the European Union; Martin Dangerfield

3. Macro-regions and the EU: The Role of Cohesion Policy; Irene McMaster and Arno van der Zwet

PART III: THEORIZING MACRO-REGIONALIZATION AND MACRO-REGIONAL STRATEGIES IN EUROPE

4. Exploring EU Macro-regional Strategies through the Lens of Multilevel Governance; Simona Piattoni

5. Macro-regional Strategies: Agents of Europeanization and Rescaling?; Dominic Stead, Franziska Sielker and Tobias Chilla

PART IV: GOVERNANCE ARCHITECTURE AND IMPACT OF MACRO-REGIONAL STRATEGIES IN EUROPE

6. The European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region; Stefan Gänzle and Kristine Kern

7. The European Union Strategy for the Danube Region; Attila Ágh

8. The European Union Strategy for the Adriatic Ionian Region; Battistina Cugusi and Andrea Stocchiero

9. The European Union Strategy for the Alpine Region; Jörg Balsiger

10. North Sea Macro-region? Partnerships, Networking and Macro-regional Dimensions; Mike Danson

11. The Atlantic Arc: A Macro-region in the Making?; Mark Wise