ABSTRACT
The regional governance, the principal theme of this volume, refers to the management of the confiicts created through growing interdependencies within a specific – albeit ideologically constructed – geographical region through the creation of institutional forums, policy instruments and networks of private and public actors. The governance processes identified in this volume only refiect a transition to a new phase in the ongoing process of creating and making regional order, but more significantly they involve the creation of a new form of regionalised governance in which the ‘regional’ becomes a particular spatial scale on which economic, political and social governance takes place. Regional governance, the principal theme of this volume, refers to the management of the confiicts created through growing interdependencies within a specific – albeit ideologically constructed – geographical region through the creation of institutional forums, policy instruments and networks of private and public actors.
