Cross-border governance in the European Union

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"The term governance has become a catchword, designating contemporary shifts in power and rule 'beyond' the nation-state, up to supra-national institutions - such as the European Union, and the World Trade Organization - and down to sub-national territorial units of cities and regions." "This volume attempts to draw debates on governance, at both of these levels, into the 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 multi-level policy that is contemporary Europe. Presenting case studies from throughout the EU as exemplars of wider 'border regimes', the volume identifies the practical and theoretical stakes involved in governing Europe's new cross-border territories as part of a newly reinvigorated 'regional question'. In Europe's euregions, it is argued, issues of democracy, identity, sovereignty, citizenship and scale must be re-thought, when 'a border runs through it'." "This book utilizes a diversity of perspectives and a range of case studies to examine modes of governance emerging across the nation-state borders of Europe. It will interest students and researchers of European Union borders, as well as those working on issues of transnational governance generally."--Jacket.