A cross-border co-operation in the hands of the EU and the national states?
(2009) STVM11 20091Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- The overall purpose with this thesis has been to consider whether cross-border cooperations funded by Interreg strengthen or undermine the nation-state. A case study has been carried out, where the South Baltic cross-border co-operation has constituted a case. The result is based on material of nineteen interviews with stakeholders from five different countries representing subnational level, national level and the European Commission.
With the background of a developed analytical framework the establishment
process and how different actors can influence the co-operation’s opportunity to be maintained or deepened have been examined. The establishment process was analysed from a decision-making model inspired by John W. Kingdon. How... (More) - The overall purpose with this thesis has been to consider whether cross-border cooperations funded by Interreg strengthen or undermine the nation-state. A case study has been carried out, where the South Baltic cross-border co-operation has constituted a case. The result is based on material of nineteen interviews with stakeholders from five different countries representing subnational level, national level and the European Commission.
With the background of a developed analytical framework the establishment
process and how different actors can influence the co-operation’s opportunity to be maintained or deepened have been examined. The establishment process was analysed from a decision-making model inspired by John W. Kingdon. How different actors can influence the co-operation’s opportunity to be maintained or deepened was examined from two different angles; the vertical dimension,representing actors from the national governments and the EU, and the horizontal dimension representing subnational actors.
It was concluded that since national actors to a high degree drove the process to establish the South Baltic co-operation and are the ones that primarily determine the cross-border co-operation’s opportunity to be maintained or deepened; a cross-border co-operation like the South Baltic co-operation in the framework of Interreg, strengthens rather than undermine the nation-state. (Less)
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- author
- Hansson, Caroline LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- A case study of the role of the EU, the national states and the subnational actors in the South Baltic co-operation
- course
- STVM11 20091
- year
- 2009
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- South Baltic, Interreg, Cross-border co-operation, nation-state, establishment process
- language
- English
- id
- 1459348
- date added to LUP
- 2009-09-21 08:22:32
- date last changed
- 2009-09-21 08:22:32
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