Europejskie regiony jako przedmiot zainteresowań badawczych

Abstract

A point of departure for this study was an observation that, in political sciences, much more often the focus is on the phenomena happening in the political centres of European states than on those taking place in their regions. The foregoing, however, seems a serious impediment to further the knowledge on making political decisions and their practical implementation. When one follows closely the processes the countries of our continent go through, it is hard not to notice that the events unfolding in the regions more and more often, and to a much greater extent, impact the politics of both particular states and the structures of the unified Europe. Perfect exemplifications of the aforesaid assumption have been in the recent years Scotland and Catalonia. Therefore, the main aim of the present study is to indicate principle reasons that would offer a compelling justification to investigate social, political, and economic phenomena occurring at the level of region in Europe.