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Strategic Planning as Region Building on the Eastern Periphery of the EU

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This article describes how region-building is performed by four strategic planning initiatives in north-eastern Slovakia, highlighting a tension between balanced and concentrated development perspectives in Slovak regional policy. The plans are read as records of an institutionalizing process, the product of which is the creation of a lasting collaborative relationship between actors. If strategic planning could fulfil a mobilizing and integrating function in eastern Slovakia, it would constitute a significant contribution to the successful negotiation of social and economic transformations associated with post-communist structural change and European Union (EU) accession. Region-building is complicated by an over-emphasis on endogenous perspectives among local actors, hindering vertical integration, and an indeterminacy about the scale at which such an integration is best performed.

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  • Simon Smith, 2006. "Strategic Planning as Region Building on the Eastern Periphery of the EU," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(8), pages 1007-1025, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:15:y:2006:i:8:p:1007-1025
    DOI: 10.1080/09654310701448154
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