Regions have their place in the networks involving all kinds of interaction, even as the significances of one for another may differ along with the intensity and the geographical structure. It is furthermore true that many of the global challenges European regions have had to face up to in recent decades and years have direct links with flows taking place. Flows have become transmitters of the threats that the said challenges give rise to. Among aspects to be referred to here are changes of climate (and related efforts to reduce distances over which goods are carried), Brexit (a re-establishment of barriers to flows of people and goods along one of the key internal frontiers of the European Union in existence previously), the 2015 migrant crisis (involving uncontrolled flows of people), the COVID-19 pandemic (with its supply-chain disruptions and far-reaching restrictions on travel), and the aggression perpetrated against Ukraine by the Russian Federation (as seen to compel people to migrate and to change the directions in which carriage of goods takes place).

We invite academic scholars and professionals across Europe, to contribute their work to this themed issue. We welcome submissions from a conceptual or empirical stance alike.

New deadline for Abstract submission: 31 September 2022 (Europa.XXI@twarda.pan.pl)
Deadline for paper submission: 15 November 2022
Planned publication: 2023