Integration and disintegration: a political geography of the European Union
Economic integration ; Europe ; European Union ; France ; Political geography ; Region ; Sovereignty ; Spain ; State ; United Kingdom
Description of moves toward integration in the European Union and discusses the implications of those trends for the future of the sovereign state. Spain, France and the United Kingdom are used as examples. - (DWG)
Africa ; Economic integration ; Economic policy ; Political geography ; Region ; Regionalism ; Southern Africa
that the existing political infrastructure supporting regional integration has the potential to promote rivalry between the various regional arrangements and, ultimately, their member states. - (AJC)
Regional integration amongst the countries of Southern Africa is experiencing a fundamental realignment in the post-apartheid era. An examination of the principle factors, both international in the twenty-first century is offered. It is argued
Integration versus segregation : ethnic minorities and urban politics in Singapore
The article examines housing market regulatory mechanisms aimed at achieving and maintaining ethnic integration in urban residential areas. Since the end of the 1960s the integrated residential pattern has not remained stable. During the second half
Teaching political economy and social theory in human geography
Human geography ; Political geography ; Social structure ; Social theory ; Teaching of geography
Presents five themes useful in integrating into geography courses: 1) the historical specificity of geography; 2) interconnectness of regions; 3) interpenetration of human and biophysical systems; 4) centrality of culture and everyday life
in the creation of spatial relations; and 5) political economy as a means of comprehending social structure. - (DWG)
Political geographical issues of Hungary's accession to the European Union
European integration ; Hungary ; International relations ; Political geography ; Years 1990-99
In this paper the changes in the political geographical position of Hungary after the collapse of communism are examined. Special attention is paid to the gradual democratisation process of the country and the reestablishment of the old ties
The shifting stage of politics: new medieval and postmodern territorialities
Economic integration ; Europe ; European Union ; Federalism ; Nationalism ; Political geography ; Post-modernism ; Sovereignty ; Space time ; State ; Territoriality
The A. argues for new medieval and postmodern conceptualizations of territoriality and sovereignty, which recognize that geographic space is becoming more complex and relative: conventional political concepts based on absolute space are increasingly
problematic for understanding the political complexities of globalization. The A. sketches transformations of sovereignty from medieval to modern, and from modern to postmodern. Contemporary configurations of political space are a complex mixture of new
Cultural studies ; Economic integration ; Europe ; European Union ; European integration ; Identity ; Political geography
The A. outlines the successes achieved in half a century of European integration and highlights some existing models of a “multispeed” European Union. Finally, he emphasises the cultural and identity challenges the Union must continue to face
Regulation theory, strategies of enterprise integration and the political economy of regional economic restructuring in central and eastern Europe: the case of Slovakia
Part of the action, or going native ? Learning to cope with the politics of integration
Activism ; Credit ; England ; Geographic research ; Hull ; Social change ; Social geography ; Social group ; Social integration ; Social practice ; United Kingdom
Cultural identity ; Economic cooperation ; Economic integration ; Europe ; European integration ; Political geography
The question of Eastern limits of Europe is based on political and economic elements since Sixties of last century by a special commission of Council of Europe. In this new geographic frame the enlargement of European Union at East and South
will involve some Muslim countries and new forms of partnership and integration, that safeguard however its more specific religious background and identity, but will contribute to pacify a large part of the world. - (NF)
European integration and regionalisation in transition Romania
Administrative reform ; European integration ; Regionalization ; Romania
The aim of the paper is to present and to examine the new paradigm of regionalization in Romania, constructed under the conditions of the transition process from a socialist to a democratic system which started 1989. The political construction
of regions was determined by external factors linked to the process for EU integration for Romania, which requires the establishment of a regional policy and development system. Therfore, in 1998 a regional level was created by the grouping of counties
European integration and the spatial dynamics of manufacturing-employment change
Competitiveness ; Employment ; Europe ; European Union ; European integration ; Industrial branch ; Industry ; Job creation ; Location ; Shift-share analysis ; Spatial dynamics ; Specialization
. The evidence suggests that, contrary to some political rhetoric, the integration process has not, so far at least, adversely affected the relative competitiveness of manufacturing either in peripheral or in core countries.
Breeding influenza : the political virology of offshore farming
. These are integrated with the political economies of agribusiness and global finance. An effort is made to explain why H5N1 emerged in southern China in 1997. Influenza seems able to integrate selection pressures imposed by human production across continental distances
, an integration any analysis of the virus should assimilate in turn.
From ethnic to national : political geography in Slovenia
Balkans ; Cultural studies ; Ethnic composition ; Minority ; Multiculturalism ; Political geography ; Slovenia ; Territorial identity
Early research has made the Slovenian ethnic component in Austria, Italy and Hungary a laboratory of studies on the minority–majority relations, as well as on ethnic migration. Studies during the “cold war era” have shown ways to overcome political
divisions and cultural diversity. Recently, the integration and disintegration processes have come into the spotlight. At the same time the multi-cultural aspects, the territorial identity and the ethnic components continue to play an important role. - (IKR)