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Technocratic Planning and Political Strategies: Territorial Policy in the EU

Lookup NU author(s): Emeritus Professor William Outhwaite

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Abstract

Examines the EU’s halting development of territorial policy, most recently in macro-regional planning, and the responses of member states’ local and national governmental elites. Whether populist or not in their overall programmes, these elites have tended to resist EU initiatives in the name of a perceived national interest or to instrumentalise them in order to maximise their domestic political pay-off. These ‘sovereignty games’ (Adler-Nissen and Gammeltoft-Hansen 2008) have been a constant feature of the European integration process, but transnational territorial initiatives, involving a flexible mix of European and sub-regional bodies as well as national states (both members and non-members of the EU) tend to raise the stakes thse games.

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Author(s): Outhwaite W

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Contemporary European Research

Year: 2021

Volume: 17

Issue: 2

Pages: 87-101

Online publication date: 24/06/2021

Acceptance date: 01/01/2020

Date deposited: 09/11/2023

ISSN (electronic): 1815-347X

Publisher: UACES

URL: https://doi.org/10.30950/jcer.v17i2.1183

DOI: 10.30950/jcer.v17i2.1183

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