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Regionalism and the EU: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Challenges
Organiser: Andrew Evans and Lee McGowan, Queen’s University Belfast

This UACES workshop will take place on Wednesday - Thursday, 21-22 June 2000 and is being organised by Andrew Evans and Lee McGowan, and will be hosted by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, Institute of European Studies, Queens University Belfast.

Regionalism involves and increasing tendency for regions to identify and pursue interests divergent from those expressed in international and European organisations by the central institutions of their state. The divergence reflects the diminishing capacity of the state, in the face of growing global interdependence, to act as a coherent entity whose collective interests can be represented as expressed by central institutions. The constitutional implications of this divergence for the role of Member States within the European Union form the central theme of this workshop.

This UACES workshop will explore the role of regional and devolved forms of governance in the European Union. Theoretical, comparative and empirical papers are welcome. It is envisaged that a range of disciplines, such as economics, geography, international relations, law, politics and sociology, will be represented at the workshop. Participation of postgraduate students is particularly encouraged.

Please send applications including a 300-500 word abstract to:  Dr Andrew Evans (andrew.evans@qub.ac.uk) or Dr Lee McGowan (l.mcgowan@qub.ac.uk).   

The deadline for receiving proposals is the 15 March 2000.  Further information is also available at this website: http://www.qub.ac.uk/ies/

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