View from Zollernblick is the second collection of essays based on the European Regionalism symposia at Freudenstadt in Baden-Wurtt temberg, organised since 1991 by Christopher Harvie and Eberhard Bort. Networking Europe: Essays on Regionalism and Social Democracy was published by Liverpool University Press in 2000. Again, an array of regional perspectives on constitutional politics, policy areas and cultural connections reflect the lively and diverse conversations so characteristic for these unique annual meetings of minds in the Black Forest, with contributions by academics, journalists academics, journalists, writers and politicians from Scotland, Wales, England, Ireland, Germany and other European regions. This book is also a Festschrift for Chris Harvie who, as a Scottish historian, a Professor of British and Irish Studies at the University of Tubingen, and a Member of the Scott ish Parliament, has been the spiritus rector - or Lord of Misrule - at the Zollernblick gatherings.