Pour une géographie politique de la coopération territoriale

Abstract

Dealing with the territorial cooperation, the paper enshrines its political geography perspective in the field of ‘geography of peace’. On the basis of new paradigmatic issues concerning territorial reconfigurations, the author adresses the meaning of the territorial cooperation with two emblematic cases : on the one hand, transnational regions with the specific case of the European macroregional strategies and, on the other hand, city networks through the example of town twnnings. She concludes with a new research agenda on the way to study the weak ties of territorial cooperation in a world of flows and discontinuities where strong ties of administrative structures inherited from the political modernity are still in action.

Keywords

• territorial cooperation
• political geography
• border
• transnational region
• macroregion
• city networks