New theme issue  "International policy-transfer initiatives in regional development and planning" of "Regional Studies" Vol. 52 No. 9 co-edited by Ida Musiałkowska (PUEB, European Studies Department), Marcin Dąbrowski (TU Delft) and Laura Polverari (University of Strathclyde) is out!

The issue consists of the editorial: "Introduction: drawing lessons from international policy-transfer initiatives in regional and urban development and spatial planning" available in Open Access: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2018.1462490 and four articles:

1. EU–China and EU–Brazil policy transfer in regional policy - Marcin Dąbrowski, Ida Musiałkowska, Laura Polverari: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2018.1431389
2. Learning and policy transfer in regional development policy in Turkey - Ebru Ertugal https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2017.1417582
3. Parallelism and evolution in transnational policy transfer networks: the case of Sino-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) - Julie T. Miao https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2017.1418979
4. Is transit-oriented development (TOD) an internationally transferable policy concept? - Ren Thomas, Dorina Pojani, Sander Lenferink, Luca Bertolini, Dominic Stead & Erwin van der Krabben https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2018.1428740

The whole issue can be read here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cres20/52/9