To better understand how the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is applied, this article
catalogues and analyzes 161 applications of the ACF from 2007 to 2014. Building on a …

This article addresses the concept of Territorial Cohesion, which has been gaining
increasing interest within academia and the EU policy circles. In particular, this article …

The COVID-19 pandemic, originating as a health crisis but quickly expanding to other social
spheres, had significant and asymmetric impacts across Europe, which potentially …

The last three decades have seen the Western Balkan Region facing several institutional,
economic, social, and territorial transformation. Since the early 1990s, the region has …

Based on a relational understanding of socio-spatial polarisation as a nested,
multidimensional and multi-scalar process, the paper applies a comparative perspective on …

Cohesion Policy is the main investment policy of the European Union (EU), supporting the
development of regions since the end of the 1980s. Besides its relevant impact on …

The European Union identifies the regional level as the ideal spatial scale for resources'
redistribution, in so doing turning European regions into key spatial development players …

Territorial cohesion, recognized by the Treaty of Lisbon, has been subject to various policy
and academic debates. Despite various efforts to operationalize it, territorial cohesion has …

Given the uneven distribution of regional benefits and losses across Europe, the article
assesses the potential of stronger justice and capabilities-oriented approaches to …

Since the collapse of the communist regimes and the beginning of the transition period,
territorial governance and spatial planning in the Western Balkans have often been …