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    Holding the line : borders in a global world / edited by Heather N. Nicol and Ian Townsend-Gault.

    • Title:Holding the line : borders in a global world / edited by Heather N. Nicol and Ian Townsend-Gault.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Townsend Gault, Ian, 1952-
      Nicol, Heather N. (Heather Nora), 1953-
    • Published/Created:Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2005.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Boundaries.
      Sovereignty.
      Globalization.
      International relations.
    • Description:vii, 440 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:0774809310 :
    • Contents:Introduction / Heather Nicol and Ian Townsend-Gault
      1. Boundary permeability in perspective / Gerald Blake
      2. Information geopolitics : blurring the lines of sovereignty / Thomas M. Edwards
      3. Law, sovereignty, and transnationalism : delivering social goods using a functional approach to borders / Robert Adamson
      4. European borders in transition : the internal and external frontiers of the European Union / Eberhard Bort
      5. Transnational regionalism, strategic geopolitics, and European integration : the case of the Baltic Sea region / James Wesley Scott
      6. Transfrontier regionalism : the European Union perspective on postcolonial Africa, with special reference to Borgu / Anthony I. Asiwaju
      7. Trans-maritime boundary cooperation in Southeast Asia : eroding or enhancing the importance of international boundaries? / Clive Schofield
      8. Neoliberal Caribbean integration : the role of the ACS in restructuring borderlines / Heather Nicol
      9. Redefining the nature and functions of boundaries : a South American perspective / Roy Bradshaw
      10. Transportation and competitiveness in North America : the Cascadian and San Diego-Tijuana border regions / Theodore H. Cohn
      11. Conflicting transborder visions and agendas : economic and environmental Cascadians / Donald K. Alper
      12. Cascadian adventures : shared visions, strategic alliances, and ingrained barriers in a transborder region / Alan F. J. Artibise
      13. NAFTA and transportation corridor improvement in Western North America : restructuring for the twenty-first century / Daniel E. Turbeville III and Susan L. Bradbury
      14. Permeable borders and boundaries in a globalizing world : feeling at home amidst global poverty / Mathew Coleman
      15. Technopoles and development in a "borderless" world : boundaries erased, boundaries constructed / Steven Jackson
      16. Complex emergency response planning and coordination : potential GIS applications / William W. Wood
      17. Good neighbour diplomacy revisited / Alan K. Henrikson
      18. Towards a geopolitics of life and living : where boundaries still matter / Stanley D. Brunn, John F. Watkins, Timothy J. Fargo, Josh Lepawsky and Jeffery A. Jones
      19. From the international to the local in the study and representation of boundaries : theoretical and methodological comments / David Newman
      Conclusion / Heather Nicol.
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