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Globalization, Regionalization and Cross-Border Regions: Scales, Discourses and Governance

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Globalization, Regionalization and Cross-Border Regions

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The concept of the cross-border region (hereafter CBR) has gained increasing prominence in policy and academic discourses, A CBR is a territorial unit that comprises contiguous subnational units from two or more nation-states. Since borders were hermetic barriers oniy on rare occasions in the history of national territorial states, the existence of integrated, cross-border spaces is no novelty as such. What is new in recent developments is that the construction of cross-border regions has become a more or less explicit strategic objective pursued by various social forces within and beyond border regions.

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  1. Management Centre, University of Leicester, UK

    Markus Perkmann (Research Fellow)

  2. Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Lancaster, UK

    Ngai-Ling Sum (Lecturer)

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Perkmann, M., Sum, NL. (2002). Globalization, Regionalization and Cross-Border Regions: Scales, Discourses and Governance. In: Perkmann, M., Sum, NL. (eds) Globalization, Regionalization and Cross-Border Regions. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596092_1

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