Whose partnership? Regional participatory arrangements in CBC programming on the Finnish–Russian borderFootnote^*

* This paper is a considerably reworked and extended version of a preliminary study presented by the same authors at the Arseniev Conference ‘Problems in Economic Geography and Spatial Development Statistics’, University of Petrozavodsk (24 October 2014) and published in the conference proceedings under the title ‘Whose Partnership? Regional participatory arrangements in the programming of ENPI CBC—the case of Karelia at the Finnish–Russian border’. This paper is partly based on research commissioned by the Joint Managing Authority of the Karelia CBC Programme, carried out by the authors between November 2013 and February 2014.

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