Martin Jones is Professor of Urban and Regional Political Economy and Director of the White Rose Social Science DTC, at the University of Sheffield, UK. Martin is an interdisciplinary researcher, interested in the geographies of state and government intervention through economic and social policy in cities and regions, and subnational political economies therein.Anssi Paasi is a Professor at the Department of Geography at the University of Oulu. Anssi’s research fields are social construction of regions and territorial identities; theories of region, place and regionalism; the links between territories, boundaries and individual/social consciousness; the rhetoric of globalization and geopolitical imagination; the Europe of regions/ regional planning and development.