TY  - BOOK
AU  - Townsend Gault,Ian
AU  - Nicol,Heather N.
TI  - Holding the line: borders in a global world 
SN  - 0774809310
U1  - 320.12 22
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - Vancouver
PB  - UBC Press
KW  - Boundaries
KW  - Sovereignty
KW  - Globalization
KW  - International relations
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -