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Competitive Advantage in Frontier Regions of Europe: Redefining the Global-Local Nexus

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The field of regional development has invariably been preoccupied with movement, both of resources, or goods, and people, and has concentrated its research and practice on the issues of either increasing or discouraging movement. The periods of colonial expansion and the industrial revolution are analyzed from the perspective of resource (or primary product) extraction from rural areas (particularly peripheral areas) and the importation of manufactured goods. Arthur Lewis constructs an understanding of the division of the world into rich core and poor peripheries in the 19th Century around the respective migration of 50 million indentured laborers to work in the plantations and mines in the tropical countries and a similar number of Europeans to the temperate countries of new settlement (Lewis, 1978). Initial pre-World War I attempts at interventions in the peripheries of Scotland and Ireland concerned the problems of ‘congested districts’ and even promoted emigration.

’Tis not in mortals to command success, But we’ll do more…we’ll deserve it. Cato Act 1, Sc. ii Joseph Addison, 1713

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  1. Negev Center for Regional Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

    Harvey Lithwick (Emeritus Professor) (Emeritus Professor)

  2. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

    Harvey Lithwick (Emeritus Professor) (Emeritus Professor)

  3. Negev Center for Regional Development, Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

    Yehuda Gradus

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Dawe, S.P., Bryden, J.M. (2000). Competitive Advantage in Frontier Regions of Europe: Redefining the Global-Local Nexus. In: Lithwick, H., Gradus, Y. (eds) Developing Frontier Cities. The GeoJournal Library, vol 52. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1235-4_10

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