Regions – between History and Social Construction
Miklós Bakk
Abstract The study aims to give a comprehensive explanation on how regional construction took place in the European history related state-building processes and historical heritage of state-construction influences today social regions. With regard processes, started from Hechter’s model ‘primary’ ‘secondary’ state his interpretation relationship between core regions peripheries. This operates with centralizing power state, but last decades 20 th century it was proved via ‘new regionalism’ that became more relevant shaping new subnational aspect is described by Paasi, argues for concept identity as territorial ‘product’ interacting governance local society.
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