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Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation
This book explores the nature of regions and how they function, particularly at the local and micro-level. Whilst recent years have seen a resurgence in debates around the roles which regions can play in development, the focus has tended to be on macro regional institutions such as the EU, ASEAN, ECOWAS or Mercosur. In contrast, this book offers a nuanced analysis of the important field of sub-regionalism and sub-national cross-border cooperation.
Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation takes a fresh look at both theoretical and empirical approaches to region-making through cooperation activities at the micro-level across national borders in Europe, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. The book aims to explore the role that institutional dynamics play at the micro-level in shaping local and global ties, investigate what the formal and informal integration factors are that bolster regionalism and regionalization processes, and to clarify to what extent, and under what conditions, cooperation at the micro-level can be instrumental to solving common problems.
Scholars and students within politics, sociology, geography, and economics would find this book an important guide to regionalism at a micro-local level perspective.
Elisabetta Nadalutti is an IAS WIRL-COFUND Fellow under the Marie Skodowska Curie Actions COFUND scheme, University of Warwick, UK.
Otto Kallscheuer is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
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Routledge Global Cooperation Series
This series develops innovative approaches to understanding, explaining and answering one of the most pressing questions of our time how can cooperation in a culturally diverse world of nine billion people succeed?
We are rapidly approaching our planets limits, with trends such as advancing climate change and the destruction of biological diversity jeopardising our natural life support systems. Accelerated globalisation processes lead to an ever-growing interconnectedness of markets, states, societies and individuals. Many of todays problems cannot be solved by nation states alone. Intensified cooperation at the local, national, international and global level is needed to tackle current and looming global crises.
Series Editors:
Tobias Debiel, Claus Leggewie and Dirk Messnerare Co-Directors of the Kte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Their research areas are, among others, Global Governance, Climate Change, Peacebuilding and Cultural Diversity of Global Citizenship. The three Co-Directors are, at the same time, based in their home institutions, which participate in the Centre, namely the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut fr Entwicklungspolitik (DIE, Messner) in Bonn, the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF, Debiel) in Duisburg and The Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI, Leggewie , former Director, now retired) in Essen.
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Liam Swiss
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Region-Making and Cross
Border Cooperation
New Evidence from Four Continents
Edited by Elisabetta Nadalutti and
Otto Kallscheuer
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Xiangming Chen is Dean and Director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies, the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, a distinguished guest professor in the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Fudan University, Shanghai, and an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, China.
Michael Flitner is Professor of Human Geography at Bremen University and Chair of Artec, the Universitys Sustainability Research Center. His research focuses on empirical and theoretical questions of political ecology, global change and urban infrastructures.
Volker M. Heins is Permanent Fellow and member of the executive board of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), University Alliance Ruhr, Essen, Germany, as well as a senior researcher at the Kte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He is a faculty member and an affiliated Professor of Political Science at the same university.
Johannes Herbeck studied geography, political science and sociology in Munich. Since 2008, he has been a researcher at the Sustainability Research Centre University of Bremen and works as lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Bremen. In 2014, he defended his PhD thesis entitled Geographies of Climate Change: Vulnerability, Security and Translocality. From 2014 to the present, he has worked as the scientific coordinator for the project New Regional Formations: Rapid Environmental Change and Migration in Coastal Regions of Ghana and Indonesia.
Otto Kallscheuer is a philosopher and political scientist, a former member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and of the Italian Academy for Advanced Study at Columbia University, New York. He has taught political science and philosophy at several universities in Germany, Italy and Switzerland, including the Free University Berlin, the Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples and the University of Lucerne. His most recent book publications include Zur Zukunft des Abendlandes (2009).
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Harlan Koff is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Luxembourg. He is President of the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC) and co-coordinator of RISCs working group on Development, Equity and Policy Coherence ( www.risc.lu ). He is also co-editor of the journal
