Story about regionalism

Region, accepted as 'certain unity in geographical sense or certain group of territories which complete one certain, unique territory, which has habitants specific because of certain common elements that they wish to preserve and develop, in order to assure its own cultural, social and economic development', is concerned with a lot of challenges that have been given to it across the world. Those challenges are: non equality in economic development of regions inside the same state, which leads to polarization and separation of regions, even to making its own states; insufficient power to rule over all globalization's processes and especially, over 'the nation state'; and problem that people can not be more used to idea of 'Europe of regions', instead of 'Europe of states'. None the less, regions, regionalization, and regional state are commonly used as possible 'third way', between federations and confederations.