<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">Hi All,</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">If we are to have a place in potentially new Regional Governance Structures (as an NGO), then we should develop the new understandings required (New Regionalism, etc.). Struggling through this masters thesis by German university student, Daniela Windsheimer, could be very useful in that direction. <a href="http://www.geo.fu-berlin.de/geog/fachrichtungen/anthrogeog/teas/medien/download/publikationen/metar/METAR_51_Windsheimer_2008.pdf"></a></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><a href="http://www.geo.fu-berlin.de/geog/fachrichtungen/anthrogeog/teas/medien/download/publikationen/metar/METAR_51_Windsheimer_2008.pdf">http://www.geo.fu-berlin.de/geog/fachrichtungen/anthrogeog/teas/medien/download/publikationen/metar/METAR_51_Windsheimer_2008.pdf</a></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">The definition of Governance --<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "> the use of interorganizational approaches rather than a hierarchical regional government to effectively govern Metropolitan Regions -- suggests</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">that NGOs will be key players if we are so capable.! Let's get with it.</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Best wishes,</font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Robert</font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">PS: Daniela was at WLU in 2007 as a visiting scholar.</font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div></body></html>