I wholeheartedly recommend this book, not only for scholars in the fields of regional development and policy, spatial planning and geography, but for all those who want to better understand the spatial dynamics of contemporary Europe. (Szabolcs Fabula, Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, Vol. 68 (4), 2019) The book is timely and highly relevant for the current debates around re-imagining the Cohesion Policy. The volume is of interest and a useful resource for all those searching to understand regional inequalities as a relational, multi-dimensional and multi-scalar concept, as well as for those interested in conceptual and policy alternatives to current framework of Cohesion Policy. (Mihail EVA, Eastern Journal of European Studies, Vol. 10 (1), 2019) Thebook makes a valuable contribution to the burgeoning debate on socio-spatial polarisation, especially with respect to our understanding of the specificities of CEE countries, where sub-national administrative capacity and civil society organizations are nothing like western-centric scholars imagine them to be. (Kevin Morgan, Eurasian Geography and Economics, June 20, 2019)