Between Regional Spaces and Spaces of Regionalism: Cross-Border Region Building in the Spanish 'State of the Autonomies'

International audienceThe intense development of cross-border cooperation in the European Union in the last two decades offers a privileged laboratory to reflect upon the changing nature of regions and processes of regional construction in the context of globalization. Focusing on Euroregions, this work aims to establish some bridges between Regional World(s) and Cross-border Regional World(s). In the first part of this article, this kind of connections is considered under the light of the recent and fruitful theoretical and conceptual debates developed within the framework of the regional and border studies. The second part will focus on the analysis of a specific case, that of cross-border cooperation in the Spanish State of the Autonomies, and particularly, on the euroregional territories or projects in three Autonomous Communities which have strong historic, political and cultural characters, as are the cases of the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia