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The era of globalization has produced significant changes in theborderland issues of trade, security, economics, health, and even theenvironment. While borders may seem more permeable than they once were,can it really be said that we live in a "borderless world"?Holding the Line considers the changing roles of modernborders, contending that they not only remain relevant but also havebecome increasingly important as a site for negotiating the competingdemands of globalization and national sovereignty. Exploring contemporary borders from a broad range of perspectives --legal, environmental, sociological, economic, geopolitical, andhistorical -- and using examples from various regions in Europe, NorthAmerica, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, the contributors use aholistic approach to understand the impact of boundaries on bothsociety and space. They demonstrate that any attempt to create amethodological and conceptual framework for the understanding ofboundaries must be concerned with the process of bounding, rather thansimply the means through which physical lines of separation aredelimited and demarcated. Borders, they conclude, are as much metaphorsas they are realities.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction / Heather Nicol and Ian Townsend-Gault Part 1: The World Stage -- New Opportunities andProblems 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 GoodsUsing a Functional Approach to Borders / Robert Adamson Part 2: Regionalism and Subregionalism inEurope 4. European Borders in Transition: The Internal and ExternalFrontiers of the European Union / Eberhard Bort 5. Transnational Regionalism, Strategic Geopolitics, and EuropeanIntegration: The Case of the Baltic Sea Region / James WesleyScott Part 3: Emerging Perspectives 6. Transfrontier Regionalism: The European Union Perspective onPostcolonial Africa, with Special Reference to Borgu / Anthony I.Asiwaju 7. Trans-Maritime Boundary Cooperation in Southeast Asia: Eroding orEnhancing the Importance of International Boundaries? / CliveSchofield Part 4: Redefining Boundaries in the Americas 8. Neoliberal Caribbean Integration: The Role of the ACS inRestructuring Borderlines / Heather Nicol 9. Redefining the Nature and Functions of Boundaries: A SouthAmerican Perspective / Roy Bradshaw Part 5: A Borderless North America? 10. Transportation and Competitiveness in North America: TheCascadian and San Diego-Tijuana Border Regions / Theodore H.Cohn 11. Conflicting Transborder Visions and Agendas: Economic andEnvironmental Cascadians / Donald K. Alper 12. Cascadian Adventures: Shared Visions, Strategic Alliances, andIngrained Barriers in a Transborder Region / Alan F.J.Artibise 13. NAFTA and Transportation Corridor Improvement in Western NorthAmerica: Restructuring for the Twenty-First Century / Daniel E.Turbeville III and Susan L. Bradbury Part 6: Borders as Metaphors 14. Permeable Borders and Boundaries in a Globalizing World: Feelingat Home amidst Global Poverty / Mathew Coleman 15. Technopoles and Development in a "Borderless" World:Boundaries Erased, Boundaries Constructed / Steven Jackson Part 7: Rethinking Borders -- Lines, Spaces, andContinua 16. Complex Emergency Response Planning and Coordination: PotentialGIS Applications / William B. Wood 17. Good Neighbour Diplomacy Revisited / Alan K.Henrikson Part 8: Conclusions 18. Towards a Geopolitics of Life and Living: Where Boundaries StillMatter / Stanley D. Brunn, John F. Watkins, Timothy J. Fargo, JoshLepawsky, and Jeffrey A. Jones 19. From the International to the Local in the Study andRepresentation of Boundaries: Theoretical and Methodological Comments /David Newman Conclusion / Heather Nicol Contributors Index

About the Author :
Heather N. Nicol is Assistant Professor in theGeosciences Department at the State University of West Georgia.Ian Townsend-Gault is Associate Professor of Law andDirector of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies in the Faculty of Law atthe University of British Columbia.

Review :
The book will stand on its own, without rivals, in the way it tackles the theme. - Julian V. Minghi, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, and co-editor of The Geography of Border Landscapes


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780774809320
  • Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 448
  • Weight: 600 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0774809329
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Borders in a Global World
  • Width: 165 mm


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