Studying Regions: Conceptual and Methodological Approaches to Regionalism

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This course is organised by Ghent University in close collaboration with UNU CRIS. Why and how do societies cooperate and integrate across national borders? Regionalism as a research framework seeks to capture these dynamics by looking at deliberate projects to create regional rules, identities and socioeconomic structures. Through these processes, regions become a crucial level between global and national governance. Regionalism approaches seek to challenge state centric and Eurocentric notions by recognising the agency of regions independently of their member states and by acknowledging the theory and practice of regional integration beyond the singular case of the European Union. This course aims to provide PhD students with input and reflections on how to address r…

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