Holding the Line

Borders in a Global World
Herausgeber: Nicol, Heather N

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Produktbeschreibung

Heather N. Nicol is Assistant Professor in theGeosciences Department at the State University of West Georgia.Ian Townsend-Gault is Associate Professor of Law andDirector of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies in the Faculty of Law atthe University of British Columbia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780774809320
• ISBN-10: 0774809329
• Artikelnr.: 21184098

Autorenporträt

Heather N. Nicol is Assistant Professor in theGeosciences Department at the State University of West Georgia.Ian Townsend-Gault is Associate Professor of Law andDirector of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies in the Faculty of Law atthe University of British Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction / Heather Nicol and Ian Townsend-Gault
 
Part 1: The World Stage -- New Opportunities andProblems
1. Boundary Permeability in Perspective / Gerald Blake
2. Information Geopolitics: Blurring the Lines of Sovereignty /Thomas M.
Edwards
3. Law, Sovereignty, and Transnationalism: Delivering Social GoodsUsing a
Functional Approach to Borders / Robert Adamson
 
Part 2: Regionalism and Subregionalism inEurope
4. European Borders in Transition: The Internal and ExternalFrontiers of
the European Union / Eberhard Bort
5. Transnational Regionalism, Strategic Geopolitics, and
EuropeanIntegration: The Case of the Baltic Sea Region / James WesleyScott
 
Part 3: Emerging Perspectives
6. Transfrontier Regionalism: The European Union Perspective onPostcolonial
Africa, with Special Reference to Borgu / Anthony I.Asiwaju
7. Trans-Maritime Boundary Cooperation in Southeast Asia: Eroding
orEnhancing the Importance of International Boundaries? / CliveSchofield
 
Part 4: Redefining Boundaries in the Americas
8. Neoliberal Caribbean Integration: The Role of the ACS inRestructuring
Borderlines / Heather Nicol
9. Redefining the Nature and Functions of Boundaries: A SouthAmerican
Perspective / Roy Bradshaw
 
Part 5: A Borderless North America?
10. Transportation and Competitiveness in North America: TheCascadian and
San Diego-Tijuana Border Regions / Theodore H.Cohn
11. Conflicting Transborder Visions and Agendas: Economic andEnvironmental
Cascadians / Donald K. Alper
12. Cascadian Adventures: Shared Visions, Strategic Alliances, andIngrained
Barriers in a Transborder Region / Alan F.J.Artibise
13. NAFTA and Transportation Corridor Improvement in Western NorthAmerica:
Restructuring for the Twenty-First Century / Daniel E.Turbeville III and
Susan L. Bradbury
 
Part 6: Borders as Metaphors
14. Permeable Borders and Boundaries in a Globalizing World: Feelingat Home
amidst Global Poverty / Mathew Coleman
15. Technopoles and Development in a "Borderless" World:Boundaries Erased,
Boundaries Constructed / Steven Jackson
 
Part 7: Rethinking Borders -- Lines, Spaces, andContinua
16. Complex Emergency Response Planning and Coordination: PotentialGIS
Applications / William B. Wood
17. Good Neighbour Diplomacy Revisited / Alan K.Henrikson
 
Part 8: Conclusions
18. Towards a Geopolitics of Life and Living: Where Boundaries StillMatter
/ Stanley D. Brunn, John F. Watkins, Timothy J. Fargo, JoshLepawsky, and
Jeffrey A. Jones
19. From the International to the Local in the Study andRepresentation of
Boundaries: Theoretical and Methodological Comments /David Newman
Conclusion / Heather Nicol
 
Contributors
Index