Holding the Line

Borders in a Global World

Edited by Heather N. Nicol & Ian Townsend-Gault
Categories: Geography, Human Geography, Law & Legal Studies, International Law, Political Science, International Political Science, Security, Peace & Conflict Studies
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774809313, 448 pages, November 2004
Paperback : 9780774809320, 448 pages, July 2005
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774851169, 448 pages, October 2007

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Heather Nicol and Ian Townsend-Gault

Part 1: The World Stage -- New Opportunities and
Problems

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

Part 2: Regionalism and Subregionalism in
Europe

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

Part 3: Emerging Perspectives

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

Part 4: Redefining Boundaries in the Americas

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

Part 5: A Borderless North America?

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

Part 6: Borders as Metaphors

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

Part 7: Rethinking Borders -- Lines, Spaces, and
Continua

16. Complex Emergency Response Planning and Coordination: Potential
GIS Applications / William B. Wood

17. Good Neighbour Diplomacy Revisited / Alan K.
Henrikson

Part 8: Conclusions

18. Towards a Geopolitics of Life and Living: Where Boundaries Still
Matter / Stanley D. Brunn, John F. Watkins, Timothy J. Fargo, Josh
Lepawsky, and Jeffrey 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

Contributors

Index

Description

The era of globalization has produced significant changes in the
borderland issues of trade, security, economics, health, and even the
environment. While borders may seem more permeable than they once were,
can it really be said that we live in a "borderless world"?
Holding the Line considers the changing roles of modern
borders, contending that they not only remain relevant but also have
become increasingly important as a site for negotiating the competing
demands of globalization and national sovereignty.

Reviews

The book will stand on its own, without rivals, in the way it tackles the theme.

- Julian V. Minghi, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, and co-editor of The Geography of Border Landscapes