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100 _aKoch, Katharina
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245 _aThe role of territoriality in the European Union multi-level governmental cooperation framework of Finnish–Russian cross-border cooperation/
260 _bSage,
_c2019.
300 _a Vol 26, issue 2, 2019 : (115-133 p.).
520 _aThe economic sanctions in the wake of the Ukrainian crisis threatened external cross-border cooperation (CBC) funded by the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) in the summer of 2014. The European Union considered several of the ENI CBC programmes that Finland and Russia participate in for the sanctions list. These programmes are implemented by a multiplicity of actors that include supra-national, national and regional authorities and form a dense actor-network with vertical and horizontal relations. The political relations between the actors are influenced by geopolitical discourses, bordering effects and power imbalances that are conceptualised in this paper as practices of territoriality. Previous research has insufficiently addressed the territoriality of actor relations within the multi-level governance (MLG) structures of CBC. Territoriality is present in MLG in the sense that CBC actors from various political levels significantly contribute to the territorial logic of political power by promoting their own interests towards cooperation practices. The research problem in this paper stems from the alleged non-hierarchical organisation of actors in CBC and argues that MLG policy structures do not render equality among the different actors and that they fail to consider the impact of territoriality. The paper investigates how territoriality influences the actor relations in the MLG structure of ENI CBC and how the actors cope with the frictions that emerge out of territoriality. Qualitative interviews reveal a conflicting system of governance in Finnish–Russian ENI CBC that fluctuates between state centrality and region-based initiatives to address frictions of various territorialit(ies) produced by actors.
650 _a Cross-border cooperation,
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650 _a European Union,
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650 _aFinnish–Russian border,
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650 _amulti-level governance,
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650 _aterritoriality
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_dLondon Sage Publications Ltd. 1994
_tEuropean urban and regional studies
_x0969-7764
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0969776417736359
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