1st Edition

Cross-Border Governance in the European Union

Edited By Barbara Hooper, Olivier Kramsch Copyright 2004
252 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Part I: Governing the Absent (Non-) Border
1. Anke Struver, 'We are only allowed to re-act, not to act' : Eurocrats' strategies and borderlanders' tactics in a Dutch-German cross-border region.
2. Henk van Houtum and Martin van der Velde, De-politicising labour market indifference and immobility in the European Union.
3. Jouni Hakli, Governing the mountains: cross-border regionalization in Catalonia
4. Odile Heddebaut, The EUROREGION from 1991 to 2020: an ephemeral stamp?
5. Enza Lissandrello, Cross-border region Espace Mont Blanc: a territorial 'not-yet'?

Part II: Governing the March
6. Ann Kennard, Cross-border governance at the future eastern edges of the EU: a regeneration project?
7. Petri Virtanen, Euregios in changing Europe: Euregio Karelia and Euroregion Pomerania as examples.
8. James W. Scott, the Northern Dimension: 'multiscalar' regionalism in an enlarging European union.
9. Noralv Veggeland, Post-national governance and transboundary regionalisation: spatial partnership formations as democratic exit, loyalty and voice options?

Part III: Governing the Postcolonial Limes
10. James Sidaway, The choreographies of European integration: negotiating transfrontier cooperation in Iberia.
11. Olivier Kramsch, Towards a Mediterranean scale of governance: 21st century urban networks across the 'Inner Sea'.
12. Barbara Hooper, Ontologizing the borders of Europe

Biography

Barbara Hooper, Olivier Kramsch