ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the geographical scale, and offers an explanation of what a scale can express in the emergence of sub-regions. A cross-scale regional governance framework serves as a contrast to a multi-level governance analytical framework, which is a rigid multi-level sharing format centered on the state. Regarding the relationship between political geography and political science, O'Loughlin has commented that while the concepts of territoriality and traditions of place have not yet been utilized as analytical tools by political scientists, political geographers have readily applied the logic and approaches of political science to their own field. The transformation of the meaning of national territory in regional policy, and particularly how this transformation of meaning has altered how national territory is used as an instrument of governance, also results in a change in the attributes of the instruments shared by sub-regional actors.
