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Deceiving (Dis)Appearances

Analyzing Current Developments in European and North American Border Regions

Harlan Koff (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2007
European Interuniversity Press (Verlag)
978-90-5201-369-5 (ISBN)

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The impact of recent shifts in global geopolitics and economic markets has led to the re-conceptualization of national borders. Scholars have shifted their analysis away from the narrow idea of «borders», and moved their attention towards the wider view of «borderlands», «border regions», and «border zones», thus, leading to the conceptual re-definition of border politics. These recent approaches have identified border areas as socially constructed territories that demonstrate many of the characteristics of independent polities. Border communities seem to have come to life, creating a degree of autonomy and separation from central state actors.
While the rich literature in border studies identifies important changes in local political and economic systems, it does not necessarily identify the mechanisms that create these changes: Why has integration occurred in some border regions while others are being reinforced? Why has integration failed in some cases where opportunity structures are positive, while it has succeeded in others saddled with more limited constraints? The essays in this volume address such fundamental questions.

Contents: Harlan Koff: Power, Politics and Deceiving (Dis)Appearances – James Wesley Scott: Cross-border Regionalization in an Enlarging EU. Hungarian-Austrian and German-Polish Cases – Anastassia Obydenkova: The Sub-national Aspects of the EU-RF Relationship. Cross-border Cooperation in the context of Europeanization and Democratization – Carmen Maganda: The Need for New Water Management Structures in North America – Zoe Bray: Boundaries in a ‘Borderless’ Europe. European Integration and Cross-frontier Cooperation in the Basque Country – Monika De Frantz: Nationality Politics at Austria’s Eastern Border. The Region of Burgenland – Harlan Koff: On the Cutting Edge. Border Integration and Security in Europe and North America – Daniel Sabet: The Border Bottleneck. Drug Trafficking and Incentives for Police Corruption – Michael Keating: Borders, Regions and Cooperation.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.12.2007
Reihe/Serie	Régionalisme & Fédéralisme / Regionalism & Federalism ; 12
	Régionalisme & Fédéralisme / Regionalism & Federalism ; 12
	Régionalisme et Fédéralisme /Regionalism and Federalism ; 12
Zusatzinfo	5 ill.
Verlagsort	Bruxelles
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 220 mm
Gewicht	350 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	90-5201-369-1 / 9052013691
ISBN-13	978-90-5201-369-5 / 9789052013695
Zustand	Neuware