By Francis Baert, Tiziana Scaramagli, Fredrik Söderbaum

This e-book has jointly reinforcing aims/parts. the 1st target is to give a contribution to a extra efficient debate among various theoretical standpoints. there's strangely little theoretical and conceptual debate during this burgeoning box, that's one significant reason behind the failure to totally clutch the range of today’s interregionalism. Too usually theorists converse earlier one another, with out fairly attractive with substitute theoretical views or competing examine effects. certainly, this booklet constitutes the 1st systematic try to assemble prime theories and theorists of interregionalism. best students from all over the world improve their very own designated theoretical views on interregionalism, with a selected emphasis at the dynamic courting among regionalism and interregionalism. those hugely acclaimed theorists have all been linked through the years with a number of disciplines, associations, faculties and debates and so deliver a wealthy set of insights and connections to this pioneering venture. the second one a part of the booklet ‘unpacks’ and problematises the sector, the using actors and associations which are engaged in interregional family members. there's a powerful tendency within the box to regard areas as coherent devices actors in an interregional dating, and such simplified notions approximately ‘regions’ and ‘regional agencies’ inevitably lead to superficial and deceptive understandings of interregionalism. This a part of the booklet connects the theoretical dialogue within the first half with a practicable empirical object.