European macro-regions, Euroregions and other forms of inter-regional, cross-border cooperation have helped to shape new scenarios and new relational spaces which may generate opportunities for economic development, while redefining the political and economic meaning of national borders. This book is based on a number of key case studies which are crucial to understanding the complex web of political, economic and cultural factors that shape the heterogeneous picture of Europe's new geography.

Nicola Bellini is Professor of Economics and Management at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy.

Ulrich Hilpert is Professor and Chair of Comparative Government at Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany.

Preface Nicola Bellini and Ulrich Hilpert Part I: Introduction 1. Europe's Changing Regional Geography: The impact of inter-regional networks Nicola Bellini and Ulrich Hilpert Part II: New Challenges and New Patterns of Collaboration 2. European Macro-Regions as a New Dimension of European Geography: Networks of collaboration in the light of culture, history and language capabilities Alexander Nagler Part III: Europe's New Regionalisation: The integration of regional activities through macroregions 3. The Baltic Sea Region: Who cooperates with whom, and why? Carsten Schymik 4. Towards a 'Wide Area Co-operation': The economic rationale and political feasibility of the Adriatic Euroregion Alberto Bramanti and Paolo Rosso 5. A Typology of Agents and Subjects of Regional Cooperation: The experience of the Mediterranean Arc Antoni Durà i Guimerà and Xavier Oliveras González Part IV: Europe's Re-Regionalisation Across Borders 6. Transnational Infrastructure Projects and Their Impact on Region-Building in the Southwestern Baltic Sea Region Magdalena Schönweitz 7. Incentives and Obstacles to Cross-Border Cooperation in Post-Communist Central Europe Gerg¿ Medve-Balint 8. The Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euroregion: Policy networks and institutional capacities Pilar Rodríguez Francesco Morata and Andrea Noferini Part V: Conclusions 9. Europe's Changing Geography in Perspective Nicola Bellini and Ulrich Hilpert