Regional science is the only field integrating explicitly the notion of region.
Through an analysis of the basic regional concepts, such as natural region, homogeneous region, historical region, fonctional region, growth pole, milieu theory, this paper develops the logics of the new regional orders confronted with the economic and political globalization. The people of France carved in indestructible granite and lay at the very heart of the old monarchistic continent, the foundation for a great edifice of the future, which will one day be called the United States of Europe. He set the debate at the level of the Region, Europe. But before this Region could be integrated and accepted as such, it had to go through a long process of evolution which we are going to recount here, going through the history of spatial analysis and its opening up to geographical, political, economic and social issues. The Historical Development of the Regional Concept In the classical geography of Strabo and A. von Humboldt, the world consists of routes and countries discovered in the course of explorations.