REGIONALISM AND REGIONAL POLICY VERSUS THE CONCEPT OF A NATION STATE

KEKENOVSKI, JOVE (2016) REGIONALISM AND REGIONAL POLICY VERSUS THE CONCEPT OF A NATION STATE. XII ECPD International Conference FUTURE OF THE WORLD BETWEEN GLOBALIZATION AND REGIONALIZATION Belgrade, 1.

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REGIONALISM AND REGIONAL POLICY VERSUS THE CONCEPT OF A NATION STATE

Abstract
Globalization as a process stimulates cooperation and harmony, which is why a larger part of the world should be integrated into the system of economic and political interdependence. However, according to an alternative view, these globalization trends create new forms of tension and conflict, which, due to the reduced effectiveness of national governments, usually lead to regionalization. As nation-states become less effective in providing security and achieving stability and prosperity, these goals are increasingly achieved through cooperation with neighboring and geographically close states, especially in their border regions. Regionalization can represent a step towards globalization, but on the other hand, it can also be a phenomenon contrary to globalization or resistance to globalization. Political history also remembers examples of regionalism as an attempt at economic and overall autarchy and even separatism.
Stimulation of regional movements, regional self-government, interregional cooperation by the European Union in some way weakens the national identity of the member states as well as the capacity of the institutions of the national state, thus creating space for the creation of a supranational, European identity in order to strengthen its formal and common institutions. Integrative processes problematize the sovereign nation-state and promote regions as economic and cultural targets that strive for integration into broader supranational communities. By overcoming local boundaries and particularism and reducing monopolism and centralism, regionalism in a greater number of European states led to a faster development of a state.
Regionalism, understood as the process of creating territorially decentralized entities within a state, is present both in unitary (especially in those with a heterogeneous ethnic structure) and in complex states. We can freely say that regionalism completes the "mosaic" of the postmodern national state, that is, the postmodern variants of regionalism are oriented against the conception of national states.
Keywords: regionalism, national state, regional policy, decentralization, entities, unitary state

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Social Sciences > Political science
Divisions:	Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality
Depositing User:	Prof. d-r Jove Kekenovski
Date Deposited:	29 Apr 2023 06:58
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2023 06:58
URI:	https://eprints.uklo.edu.mk/id/eprint/8214

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