Full Description
In North America and Europe, cross-border governance arrangements have provided formal and informal frameworks to support cross-border cooperation. Analysing how these frameworks have emerged, the ways in which they have become institutionalized, and the processes by which they change is fundamental. Moreover, these frameworks are increasingly challenged by border securitization, thus limiting or jeopardizing decades of cross-border cooperative governance and coordinated public policies. Agents and Structures in Cross-Border Governance offers a series of case studies that explore these complex dynamics.
To understand a range of cross-border governance frameworks, this collection addresses such topics as infrastructure development and management, resource sharing, regional politics, economics, security, human rights, the environment, culture, and community. The book explains how cross-border governance schemes have sought to mitigate some of the negative consequences of border security policies, allowing readers to discern how concrete national power struggles between federal/national and subnational governments unfold in border areas. In a world increasingly impacted by climate change and more recently the COVID-19 pandemic, Agents and Structures in Cross-Border Governance sheds light on the ongoing complexity of cross-border governance and offers lessons to help mitigate these challenges.
Contents
Introduction
1. Cross-Border Governance: A Common Theoretical Framework and Comparative Approach
Bruno Dupeyron, Andrea Noferini, and Tony Payan
Part 1: Cross-Border Governance in North America: From Multipolar to Monocentric Governance
2. 'Getting It:' Business NGOs and Political Actors Talk about the US-Mexico Border
Kathleen Staudt and Pamela L. Cruz
3. The Structure of Cross-Border Governance on the US-Mexico Border
Tony Payan
4. Incumbent and Challenger Stakeholders in the San Diego-Tijuana Border Region: Economics and Migration
Eduardo Mendoza-Cota
5. Mexico's "Drug War," the Energy Sector, and an Emerging Strategic Action Field
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
6. Re-shaping Cross-Border Governance in the Pacific Northwest Borderlands
Victor Konrad
7. Revisiting "Paradiplomacy" in the Quebec-US-States Cross-Border Area
Bruno Dupeyron
Part 2: Cross-Border Governance in Europe: A Steady but Contested Multi-level Governance
8. Actors and Policy Outcomes in the Euroregion Pyrenees Mediterranean: From the Emergence to the Stabilization of the Field (1990-2018)
Andrea Noferini
9. Cross-Border Islands Governance: A Field Analysis of the Italy-Malta Interreg Program
Francesco Camonita
10. A Bird's Eye-View of Cross-Border Governance Dynamics along the Pyrenees (France-Spain Border)
Matteo Berzi
11. Cultural Policy within Euroregions: Dynamics of a Cross-Border Sectoral Field
Thomas Perrin
12. Galicia and the Region of North Portugal: An Experience of Cross-Border Cooperation in the Portugal-Spain Border
Celso Cancela Outeda
13. Cooperation and Cross-Border Conflicts in Cerdanya (Spain-France Border) in Early Twenty-First Century Environmental and Economic Crises
Xavier Oliveras
14. The Evolving Cross-Border Cooperation of Nouvelle Aquitaine-Euskadi-Navarre (Western Pyrenees Boundary): Multiple Actors and Aims of Cooperation
Antoni Durà-Guimerà
Conclusion
15. Comparing Cross-Border Governance in North America and Europe: Conclusions
Bruno Dupeyron, Andrea Noferini, and Tony Payan
