Download or read book Regional Development Theories and Their Application written by Benjamin Howard Higgins and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the world today former nationstates, as disparate as Yugoslavia, Somalia, and Canada, have either disintegrated or threaten to splinter into regions. The conflicts are economic, social, ethnic, linguistic, religious, political, and cultural. Higgins and Savoie analyze the reasons for these conflicts and show why attempts to eliminate regional disparities within nations have been largely unsuccessful.