Year: 2002
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: 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.
Source: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Authors: Markus Perkmann, Ngai-Ling Sum
Institutions: University of Leicester, Lancaster University
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W397916162