Bringing together comparative case studies from Central Europe and South America, this book focuses on 'new' regions - regions created as political projects of modernization and 're-scaling'. Through this approach it de-codes 'New Regionalism' in terms of its contributions to institutional change, while acknowledging its contested nature and contradictions.

Part 1 Introduction: Aims and Outline of the book; Chapter 1 Introduction, James Wesley Scott; Part 2 Systemic Transformation and the Politics of Scale; Chapter 2 Systemic Transformation and the Implementation of New Regionalist Paradigms: Experiences of Central Europe and Latin America, James Wesley Scott; Chapter 3 Between Crisis and Adaptation: Economic Aspects of Institutional Change in Latin America and Central Europe, Carlos Riojas; Chapter 4 Policies of Regionalization in a Transformational Context: Some Conceptual Considerations, Karl-Dieter Keim; Chapter 5 Regions, New Regionalism and Regime Theory: Deciphering Post-Socialist Institutional Change, Iwona Sagan; Part 3 Case Studies of Region-building in Latin America; Chapter 6 An Indecisive New Regionalism in Mexico? The Case of Jalisco, Basilio Verduzco Chávez; Chapter 7 Decentralization and Regions in Brazil: An Economic Development Perspective, Anita Kon; Chapter 8 Redefining Regional Policies in Venezuela: From Decentralization to Recentralization, Catalina Banko; Part 4 Case Studies of Region-building in Central Europe; Chapter 9 Regional Development and ‘New’ Regionalism in Poland, Grzegorz Gorzelak; Chapter 10 Regionalization in Hungary: Options and Scenarios on the ‘Road to Europe’, Ilona Kovács Pálné; Chapter 11 ’Reaching for the Stars’: East German Urban Regions and the Vicissitudes of Place-Making, Hans-Joachim Bürkner; Chapter 12, József Benedek; Part 5 Conclusion; Chapter 13 New Regionalism and Evolving Territorialities of the State, James Wesley Scott;