Graziani, Sylvie; Rombaldi, Michel --- "Decentralized interregional cooperation in Europe" [2002] ELECD 16; in Marciano, Alain; Josselin, Jean-Michel (eds), "The Economics of Harmonizing European Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002)

Book Title: The Economics of Harmonizing European Law

Editor(s): Marciano, Alain; Josselin, Jean-Michel

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781840646085

Section: Chapter 9

Section Title: Decentralized interregional cooperation in Europe

Author(s): Graziani, Sylvie; Rombaldi, Michel

Number of pages: 14

Extract:

9. Decentralized interregional
cooperation in Europe
Sylvie Graziani and Michel Rombaldi

The development of global economy has encouraged the emergence of new
directions for l'école de la régulation'. This has led to changes in the content
and nature of public governance.
Within this new context, interregional cooperation becomes an essential
element of decentralized public governance renewal. This form of cooperation
is particularly well suited for the Mediterranean.


9.1 A NEW METHOD OF GOVERNANCE
9.1.1 The Consequences of Global Economy

Globalization brings with it a breaking down of the national coherence of
productive systems. Up until now, the governance carried out by the nations
owed its coherence to the existence of frontiers. Today, it can be said that, due
to its almost complete disappearance of these frontiers, these have become lost
within a transnational governance (Theret, 1992).
Soon it will no longer be possible for us to identify national economies
(Reich, 1993), which will slowly make way for new entities: the region-states
(Ohmae, 1996).
Globalization and the emergence of new economic powers encourages this
spatial reorganization of the economy. Aglietta (1995) does not believe in a
homogeneous tripartite distribution (North America, Asia, Europe), but is
fairly convinced that we are heading towards a regulation fragmented into a
number of zones that are more or less imbricated. Conversely, others (Gerbier,
1995) feel that different methods of governance can coexist while being based
on a global tripartite functioning. This new method of governance would
appear to be ...