Holding the line : borders in a global world / edited by Heather N. Nicol and Ian Townsend-Gault.
Material type: TextPublisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: vii, 440 pages : maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0774809310
- 9780774809313
- 320.12 22
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 320.12 HOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A263666B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Heather Nicol and Ian Townsend-Gault -- 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 goods using a functional approach to borders / Robert Adamson -- 4. European borders in transition : the internal and external frontiers of the European Union / Eberhard Bort -- 5. Transnational regionalism, strategic geopolitics, and European integration : the case of the Baltic Sea region / James Wesley Scott -- 6. Transfrontier regionalism : the European Union perspective on postcolonial Africa, with special reference to Borgu / Anthony I. Asiwaju -- 7. Trans-maritime boundary cooperation in Southeast Asia : eroding or enhancing the importance of international boundaries? / Clive Schofield -- 8. Neoliberal Caribbean integration : the role of the ACS in restructuring borderlines / Heather Nicol -- 9. Redefining the nature and functions of boundaries : a South American perspective / Roy Bradshaw -- 10. Transportation and competitiveness in North America : the Cascadian and San Diego-Tijuana border regions / Theodore H. Cohn -- 11. Conflicting transborder visions and agendas : economic and environmental Cascadians / Donald K. Alper -- 12. Cascadian adventures : shared visions, strategic alliances, and ingrained barriers in a transborder region / Alan F. J. Artibise -- 13. NAFTA and transportation corridor improvement in Western North America : restructuring for the twenty-first century / Daniel E. Turbeville III and Susan L. Bradbury -- 14. Permeable borders and boundaries in a globalizing world : feeling at home amidst global poverty / Mathew Coleman -- 15. Technopoles and development in a "borderless" world : boundaries erased, boundaries constructed / Steven Jackson -- 16. Complex emergency response planning and coordination : potential GIS applications / William W. Wood -- 17. Good neighbour diplomacy revisited / Alan K. Henrikson -- 18. Towards a geopolitics of life and living : where boundaries still matter / Stanley D. Brunn, John F. Watkins, Timothy J. Fargo, Josh Lepawsky and Jeffery A. Jones -- 19. From the international to the local in the study and representation of boundaries : theoretical and methodological comments / David Newman -- Conclusion / Heather Nicol.
"Holding the line considers the changing roles of modern borders, contending that they not only remain relevant but have become increasingly important as a site for negotiating the competing demands of globalization and national sovereignty."--BOOK JACKET.
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