Cross-Border Governance in the European Union (Routledge Research in Transnationalism) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415429757 ISBN 13: 9780415429757

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

This volume attempts to draw debates on governance, at both of these levels, into spaces of cross-border regionalism in Europe today. Embodying both supra-national and sub-national dynamics of contemporary forms of governance, cross-border regions (or euregions) enable observation of the fitful progress and contradictions of the multilevel polity that is contemporary Europe. Including case studies from throughout the EU as exemplars of specific "border regimes", the volume identifies the practical and theoretical importance of governing in Europe's new cross-border territories as part of a newly reinvigorated 'regional question'. In Europe's euregions, it is argued, issues of democracy, identity, sovereignty, citizenship and scale must be rethought, when a border runs through it.

This book utilises a diversity of perspectives and a range of selected case studies to examine modes of governance emerging across the nation-state borders of Europe. It will interest students and researchers of European Union borders.

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Barbara Hooper, Olivier Kramsch

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415429757
• ISBN 13: 9780415429757
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Hooper Barbara, Kramsch Olivier