Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation: New Evidence from Four Continents

ISBN-13: 9781138719071 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 182 str.

Elisabetta Nadalutti; Otto Kallscheuer

Opis

This book takes a fresh look at both theoretical and empirical approaches to ‘region-making’ at the micro-level across borders in Europe, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. It will interest scholars and students within politics, sociology, geography, and economics.

Spis treści

Introduction: region-making, cooperation and its normative dimension Elisabetta Nadalutti PART I: Region-making and Cooperation 1. Regionalism after Europe? A marginal question Otto Kallscheuer 2. Rethinking the links between micro-regions and macro-regions Fredrik Söderbaum PART II Evidence from four continents 3. Critical beaches: coastal erosion and geosociality in south-eastern Ghana Michael Flitner, Volker M. Heins and Johannes Herbeck 4. Outside-in region-building: the role of border integration zones in Andean regional integration Harlan Koff 5. Rethinking cross-border regional cooperation: a comparison of the China–Myanmar and China–Laos borderlands Xiangming Chen PART III: The normative dimension of region-making through cooperation 6. The European Union and challenges of Eastern Neighbourhood: regional cooperation potentials beyond realist geopolitics James Wesley Scott 7. The normative dimension of regionalism and refugee policy in ASEAN and the EU Jens-Uwe Wunderlich 8. What are the ‘ethical values’ that underpin border cooperation in Europe and South-East Asia? A reading of the Upper Adriatic Region and the Iskandar–Malaysia border cases Elisabetta Nadalutti Conclusions Otto Kallscheuer and Elisabetta Nadalutti

O autorze

Elisabetta Nadalutti is an IAS WIRL-COFUND Fellow under the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions COFUND scheme, University of Warwick, UK. Otto Kallscheuer is a Senior Fellow at theCentre for Global Cooperation Research, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany.