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%T Beyond regional integration?: social constructivism, regional cohesiveness and the regionalism puzzle %A Ghica, Luciana Alexandra %J Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review %N 4 %P 733-752 %V 13 %D 2013 %@ 1582-4551 %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-447849 %X In this paper I deconstruct the foundations of regional integration and propose a social constructivist reconstruction of the ontological field of regionalism. More specifically, I first show that regions are notions not only of space but also of time and culture. Then, I reconstruct its related conceptual field (regionalism, regionalization, regional identity etc.), arguing that regional integration is an incomplete category of regionalism. Within this framework and as an alternative to regional integration, I build the concept of regional cohesiveness defined as the degree to which a group of actors inhabiting a contiguous space act and represent themselves as a group. This analytical model builds a multidimensional space for comprehensively mapping and exploring all forms of contemporary regionalism, from both institutional and normative/representational perspectives. %C MISC %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info