New Borders for a Changing Europe: Cross-Border Cooperation and Governance (Cass Series in Regional and Federal Studies)

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. 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