The "deepening and widening" of the EU has thrown its changing internal and external borders into sharp relief. This work demonstrates that borders are key spaces within which issues such as identity, memory and trust, and communication between states continue to be played out and transformed.
Author(s): James Anderson
Edition: 1
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 256
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 8
Why Study Borders Now?......Page 10
PARADOXICAL NEGLECT......Page 11
LOSSES IN SOCIAL SCIENCE......Page 13
BORDERS AND TERRITORIALITY......Page 15
WHY NOW? GLOBALIZATION AND THE EUROPEAN UNION......Page 16
REFERENCES......Page 20
The Changing Significanceof European Borders......Page 22
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF STATE BORDERS IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT......Page 23
THE PROLIFERATION OF BORDERS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE......Page 24
EARLY CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION AT REGIONAL LEVEL......Page 27
Borders as Barriers......Page 28
Borders as Bridges......Page 30
Borders as Resources......Page 33
Borders as Symbols of Identity......Page 35
CONCLUSION......Page 38
NOTES......Page 41
REFERENCES......Page 42
Borders of Comfort:Spatial Economic Bordering Processesin the European Union......Page 46
Fencing Wealth......Page 48
The Production of Desire......Page 50
Comforting Distantiation......Page 52
The Production of the EU......Page 54
National Borders as Handmaidens of (In)difference......Page 56
Bordering ‘Economic Refugees’ in and by the EU......Page 57
Openness for Foreign Capital......Page 59
CONCLUSION......Page 62
NOTES......Page 64
REFERENCES......Page 65
Cross-Border Environmental Governanceand EC Law......Page 69
CROSS-BORDER RIGHTS OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION UNDER COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL LAW......Page 70
Increasing Emphasis on the Nature of Individual Rights in CommunityEnvironmental Law......Page 71
Subsidiarity and Flexibility in Environmental Regulation......Page 74
Environmental Assessment Directives......Page 77
Water Framework Directive (WFD) 2000......Page 81
CROSS-BORDER PARTICIPATORY RIGHTS UNDER EC ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: IMPLICATIONS FOR IRELAND......Page 83
NOTES......Page 92
REFERENCES......Page 96
Talking across Frontiers:Building Communicationbetween Emergency Services......Page 98
LANGUAGE ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS......Page 100
PoliceSpeak......Page 102
Intacom......Page 106
LinguaNet......Page 111
THE LANGUAGE BARRIER......Page 113
OPERATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS OF MULTINATIONAL MAJOR-INCIDENT RESPONSES......Page 115
CONCLUSION......Page 116
REFERENCES......Page 118
Cross-border Police Cooperation:The Kent Experience......Page 121
COOPERATION BETWEEN KENT POLICE AND NEAR CONTINENTAL NEIGHBOURS: 1967–68......Page 122
COOPERATION IN PRACTICE: THE POST-1968 EXPERIENCE......Page 124
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TRANS-FRONTIER POLICE NETWORK, 1968–71......Page 126
THE YEARS OF INDIFFERENCE AND PROMINENCE: 1980–90......Page 129
THE CONTEMPORARY CONTRIBUTION TO TRANS-FRONTIER COOPERATION......Page 132
CONCLUSION......Page 138
NOTES......Page 142
REFERENCES......Page 143
Cross-border Governancein the Baltic Sea Region......Page 145
CONSTITUTING ELEMENTS OF BALTIC SEA REGIONALISM......Page 146
Intergovernmental Fora (national and subnational levels)......Page 148
Global Initiatives......Page 150
European Union Initiatives......Page 151
Other Projects and Initiatives......Page 152
INTERREG IIC-BSR INITIATIVES......Page 154
THE GOVERNANCE ISSUE: EMERGING PATTERNS......Page 157
NOTES......Page 161
REFERENCES......Page 162
The Euroregion and the Maximization ofSocial Capital: Pro Europa Viadrina......Page 164
CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION, THE EUROREGIONS AND THE RATIONALE BEHIND THEIR CREATION......Page 165
THE SOCIAL CAPITAL APPROACH......Page 166
STRUCTURE AND ACTIVITIES OF THE EUROREGION PRO EUROPA VIADRINA (PEV)......Page 168
Integrated Economic Region......Page 170
Promoting Good Neighbourly Relations......Page 171
Aims of PEV as Levels of Social Capital......Page 172
THE ROLE OF CONTEXT IN DETERMINING SOCIAL CAPITAL......Page 173
Socio-economic Situation of the Region......Page 174
Rise of Right-wing Extremism......Page 175
Barrier of Legal and Systemic Constraints......Page 176
Administrative Reforms in Poland......Page 177
Structural Social Capital (Within group)......Page 178
Within-group Social Capital in Poland......Page 179
Between-group Social Capital......Page 180
The ‘European’ Level of Cooperation......Page 181
SOCIAL CAPITAL AND THE AGENCY OF SPECIFIC ACTORS......Page 182
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 183
NOTES......Page 184
REFERENCES......Page 185
Cross-border Cooperation in theUpper Adriatic......Page 188
OVERLAPPING CULTURAL SPACES: FROM CONFLICT TO COOPERATION......Page 189
The Case of Trieste and Gorizia......Page 192
The Alpine ‘Three-borders’ Area......Page 194
Testing Social and Cultural Cross-border Contacts......Page 198
Future Integration Perspectives for the Trieste and Gorizia Area......Page 200
Strengthening Inter-regional Ties to Mitigate the Peripheral Character......Page 201
CONCLUSION......Page 203
REFERENCES......Page 204
Abstracts......Page 208
Notes on Contributors......Page 212
Index......Page 214
