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This engaging and topical book comprehensively explores the complexities surrounding the EU Cohesion Policy, which has been addressing regional and urban development across Europe since the 1980s. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, it considers the goals of this long-term investment policy, which is to reduce territorial disparities between Member States and their regions, and its role in the European integration process.

Bringing together contributions from an interdisciplinary team of eminent scholars and policy practitioners, chapters offer expert analysis of the disciplinary genealogies of the EU Cohesion Policy, its contemporary issues, and perceptive reflections on its future. The book provides keen insights into current academic-policy debates, and a deeper understanding of the EU Cohesion Policy’s achievements. The expert’s insights contribute to the debate that this policy must face to address the most pressing European challenges. Each chapter includes different perspectives ranging from political, economic and legal to the urban and social dimensions and investigates ways to boost research-policy dialogue on Cohesion Policy.

Offering a forward-thinking account of the topic, this timely book will be welcomed by students, academics, researchers, and policymakers alike in disciplines including human geography and geopolitics, European politics and policy, economics, public policy, and urban and regional studies.

Edited by Nicola Francesco Dotti, Independent Scholar, Brussels, Belgium, Ida Musialkowska, Associate Professor and Head of Department of European Studies, Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poland, Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado, Professor of Urbanism and Urban Regeneration, Department of Urban and Spatial Planning, School of Architecture, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain and Julia Walczyk, Independent Scholar, United Nations' University UNU-MERIT, the Netherlands