International, Local and Regional Government Alliances

Barber, Stephen

doi:10.1111/1467-9302.00087

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“…It allowed an admittedly rather minimal local foreign policy to develop (with the main emphasis being on tourism and on finding ways to access EU funding under the Interreg scheme, in which the partners were quite successful through the 1990s). Kent promoted itself as the "European County" and, for a time, there was a small jointly funded secretariat in Brussels (Barber 1997;Cannon 2005;Cochrane 1994).…”

Section: Topological Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assemblages of State Power: Topological Shifts in the Organization of Government and Politics

2010

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Multi-scalar or multi-site power relations offer two contrasting ways of understanding the shifting geography of state power. In this paper, we argue for a different starting point, one that favours a topological understanding of state spatiality over more conventional topographical accounts. In contrast to a vertical or horizontal imagery of the geography of state power, what states possess, we suggest, is reach, not height. In doing so, we draw from Sassen (2006, Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages, Princeton University Press) a vocabulary capable of portraying the renegotiation of powers that has taken place between central government in the UK and one of its key city regions, the South East of England; one that highlights an assemblage of political actors, some public, some private, where negotiations take place between elements of central and local actors "lodged" within the region, not acting "above", "below" or "alongside" it. The articulation of political demands in such a context has less to do with "jumping scale" or formalizing extensive network connections and more to do with the ability to reach directly into a "centralized" politics where proximity and reach play across one another in particular ways.

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Section: Topological Politicsmentioning

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Assemblages of State Power: Topological Shifts in the Organization of Government and Politics

2010

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“…The development of TN undertaken by SNAs in the English Channel region from the late 1980s and through the 1990s has been well documented by scholars (Church and Reid, 1995, 1996, 1999; Heddebaut, 2001, 2004; Sparke, 2000; Thomas, 2006; Wise, 2000a, 2000b) and supplemented by practitioner accounts (Barber, 1997; King, 2009).…”

Section: Transnational Networkingmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…From the late 1980s a number of cross-border bilateral agreements were signed by SNAs across the English Channel (Buléon and Shurmer-Smith, 2008: 174). The first was in 1987 between Kent and Nord-Pas de Calais (Barber, 1997: 20; Church and Reid, 1996: 1303). Hampshire’s agreement with Basse-Normandie followed in 1989 and an agreement between East Sussex and Haute-Normandie followed in 1993.…”

Section: Transnational Networkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Interreg I programme between Kent and Nord-Pas de Calais (1990–1993) led to 68 projects between local actors, many involving SNAs. This led to several longstanding partnerships that continued well beyond the life of the programme (Barber, 1997: 21). This was also the case under the wider Interreg II Rives-Manche programme, which also stimulated cross-border co-operation between local actors in South East England and Northern France (Church and Reid, 1996: 1309).…”

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Subnational transnational networking and the continuing process of local-level Europeanization

Huggins

2017

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…interview 2At the same time, the coexistence of multiple networks may increase the risk of duplicating efforts and even wasting resources, both on the side of networks themselves, and on that of financing institutions -especially, but not only, the EU -which might be tempted to spread their support broadly across organisations rather than picking winners and losers (interviews 1 and 2). Additionally, excessive fragmentation among networks can lead (some) sub-national authorities to lose some of the advantages and economies of scale that come with unity and size, such as political weight or the ability to establish an effective administrative and policy infrastructure at the centre of the network (Barber 1997, Capello 2000. This is exacerbated by the fact that a sub-national government's adherence to one network rather than another is sometimes driven not so much by functional reasoning with respect to the size, shape and mission of the organisation, but by more contingent factors such as personal connections, pre-existing links among sub-national authorities or even effective public relations on the part of the network (Barber 1997, Tavares 2016, interviews 3, 4 and 6).…”

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Differentiation from Below: Sub-national Authority Networks as a Form of Differentiated Cooperation

Tortola

Couperus

2020

SSRN Journal

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Transnational networks of local authorities are an established and growing phenomenon in Europe, where they perform a number of (soft) governance functions for their membership, often in direct connection with EU institions. This paper examines networks from the angle of institutional differentiation-an inherent trait of these organisationsin order to expand the analysis of this concept beyond its state-centric confines. The paper also adds to the study of (differentiated) integration more traditionally defined, both by analogy and insofar as networks are part and parcel of the Union's system of multi-level governance. Building on original empirical data, we identify three dimensions of differentiation generated by networks-insider-outsider, compound and multi-level differentiation-and discuss their implications for the efficiency, effectiveness and legitimacy of networks' actions. Based on our analysis, we formulate three broad recommendations for policy-makers involved in networks: first, strive for inclusion, especially of smaller and less administratively capable sub-national governments; second, improve available information on networks in order to make their landscape more efficient; third, exploit the paradiplomatic advantages of networks both outside and inside the European Union.

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International, Local and Regional Government Alliances

Cited by 8 publications

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Assemblages of State Power: Topological Shifts in the Organization of Government and Politics

Assemblages of State Power: Topological Shifts in the Organization of Government and Politics

Subnational transnational networking and the continuing process of local-level Europeanization

Differentiation from Below: Sub-national Authority Networks as a Form of Differentiated Cooperation

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