This text focuses on the notion of governance applied to the territorial dynamics. It implies in a first part to try to define what we call a territorial dynamic and the notion itself of territory. In a few words, a territory results of a construction and coordination process by actors generally...

The process of regionalism should not only induce a macroecononomic and trade convergence but should also produce some local changes. For instance, the social and economic activities at the internal border areas will evolve, the asymetric trade advantages will be replaced by comparative...

Complex systems analysis may be used in order to deal with diverse and complex local development. The aim of the paper is to build a comprehensive model based on new trends issuing from regional economics, local governance and policy analysis. Four dynamics emerge : the agents? network, the...

The paper demonstrates how the principle of local development may interact in low developed countries and more particularly in Western Africa. A first part describes both the elusion of the state, especially in low developed countries, and the spatial dispersal of social and economic forces....