The Foreign Relations of European Regions
Competences and Strategies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8041997 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joachim Blatter (0000-0002-2921-2619), Matthias Kreutzer, Michaela Rentl, Jan Thiele (0000-0002-8865-5997) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 464-490 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | West European Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01402380801939743 |
| OpenAlex | W2085843541 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 33 |
The article traces the foreign relations of 81 European regions by looking first at the constitutional competences which these regions enjoy within their nation-states. We discover that the regions in federal states have expanded their competences in two directions: conducting autonomous foreign activities and influencing national foreign policy. How far the Belgian regions, as well as the German and the Austrian Länder go in both directions depends very much on the scope of their competences in domestic politics. In non-federal states (France, GB, Italy), regionalisation brought rather more leeway to conduct a certain level of autonomous foreign activity than regional influence in national foreign policy. When we – in a second step – trace the strategies or directions of international activities which the regions pursue it becomes obvious that setting up an office in Brussels in order to adapt to political integration is very common among West European regions. In contrast, much more variety can be observed when examining the regions' strategies to adapt to fundamental economic and cultural transformations. Some European regions invest heavily in economic promotion offices and in transnational partnerships while others lack the motivation or ability to invest in these forms of foreign relations
Economic system · Economics · Foreign policy · Geography · German · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess · Regionalisation · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Political Systems and Governance
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| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,94 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |