Rescaling the european State

the making of territory and the rise of the Meso

Social scientists have regularly proclaimed the end of territory under successive waves of modernization, yet it continually re-emerges as a key principle of social, economic, and political organization. Rather than a de-territorialization we are witnessing a rescaling of social life as functional systems, identities, and ...

Enfoques y metodologías de las ciencias sociales

una perspectiva pluralista

Este es un nuevo y revolucionario manual que ofrece a profesores y estudiantes de ciclos superiores los principales enfoques y metodologías de investigación en el campo de las ciencias sociales. Escrito por un destacado conjunto de investigadores y avalado por su éxito como instrumento de ...

La independencia de Escocia

Trescientos años después de su fundación la Unión entre Inglaterra y Escocia está en cuestión y se anuncia un referéndum sobre la independencia escocesa. No porque haya un grave problema identitario o una profunda división cultural y lingüística, sino porque en las últimas décadas se ...

Culture, institutions and economic development

a study of eight European regions

Regions are increasingly recognised as a key aspect of economic change in Europe, not merely as geographic spaces but also as social systems. Their history, culture, institutions and patterns of leadership mould the way in which they adapt to European and global competitive challenges. This ...

Region and regionalism in Europe

The last half century has seen the rise across Europe of a new intermediate level of government and politics, usually referred to as a region. However the term 'region' means many different things and can be approached from many different angles - geographical, historical, cultural, social ...

Culture, institutions and economic development

a study of eight european regions

Plurinational democracy

stateless nations in a post-sovereignty era.

Transnational integration and other challenges to the nation-state have deprived it of its mystique and broken the automatic link between state and nation. This has encouraged the revival of stateless nationalisms, but also provided new means for their accommodation. The author argues that these changes ...

Paradiplomacia

las relaciones internacionales de las regiones