Europe ; European Union ; Frontier ; Nation-state ; Political geography ; Regional identity ; Trans-border cooperation
The article deals with cross-border cooperation, the border regions, the European Union, the Nation state, the linear border and the regional identity. This paper describes the leave from the border line and the leave from mental homogenization
and about the actual European regional policy of close to the border bonding” of member states. - (IfL)
Making the subterranean visible : security, tunnels, and the United States–Mexico border
The number of unauthorized tunnels discovered through the U.S.–Mexico border has risen dramatically since the mid-1990s. These tunnels are problematic for the state because the subterranean border is both less visible and more difficult to monitor
and control than is the surface border. As a result, the need to demonstrate security success at both the national and the agency level has risen. Efforts to make tunnel discoveries (and security) visible are made within border-security agencies and within
national discourse and legislation. These efforts spatially fix tunnels to the border in ways that obscure fuller a understanding of drug trafficking in general. This paper employs archival research, content analysis, and informal interviews with security
-enforcement agents to consider the material presence of tunnels within border landscapes.
The international conditions of the Ukrainian-Polish cross-border cooperation
International relations ; Poland ; Political geography ; Regional development ; Regional economy ; Trans-border area ; Trans-border cooperation ; Ukraine
After EU enlargement and its approaching to the Ukrainian borders, the development of cross-border cooperation with neighbor countries–members of EU has become extremely important. The integration processes shift from national to the regional
and local levels. The current state of the Ukrainian-Polish cross-border cooperation shows that both in Poland and Ukraine there is a need for assuming the complex political, economical, technical, organizational and ecological measures, which have
to minimize the negative exposures of existing barriers. The boundary situation of regions should be taken as an advantage for social-economy development that will facilitate the transit potential of the border territories. – (BJ)
A study of state borders as factors blocking socio-economic progress in North-Eastern Hungary
Most of the socially and economically declining regions of Hungary are situated along the national borders. The A. investigates the historical development and the future perspectives of one of these regions, streching along the nort-eastern borders
Problems of delimitation and typology of border regions
In the present paper an evaluation has been shown of four different and most often used definitions of border regions, the problems of their delimitation, as well as the author's own, may be controversial, conception of interpreting border regions
Territorial cohesion and transboundary governance : insights from the Polish-German and the Czech-German borders
Territorial cohesion as a challenge for transboundary governance and concerning policies with a spatial impact, empirical lenses on the Polish-German and the Czech-German borders, Görlitz/Zgorzelec (Polish-German border) for transboundary co
Geographic analysis of the border region of Vimperk
The results of one of sixteen regional studies which aim towards a detailed view of border regions with the possibility of comparison. All studies have the same structure : basic information, history, population and settlement, economy, transport
Sunbelt frontier and border economy| manufacturing in El Paso-Ciudad Juarez
This study is an attempt to portray and explain the sudden recent economic take-off of the US-Mexico border region. It concentrates on the border economies of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez as case-study areas. (AGD).
Drugs and war destabilise Thai-Myanmar border region
Consumption of methamphetamines has skyrocketed in Thailand. The destabilising effects of the drug trade are not just social. Groups vie for control of the lucrative trade and the border is increasingly militarised in response to the aggravation
Changes in the relative earnings gap between natives and immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico border
The paper extends the border literature as well as the debate on how Mexican immigrants perform in U.S. labor markets. The AA. investigate how immigrant/native earnings disparities changed for residents in U.S. cities along the Mexican border vis-à
-vis the U.S. interior during the 1990s. A wage decomposition technique is employed to analyze changes in immigrant/native earnings differentials for border and nonborder residents.
The Polish-Ukrainian border as a methodological, cognitive and applicational challenge
The national border between Poland and Ukraine is a typical subsequent boundary, delimited after World War II as the then border between Poland and the Soviet Union. Since May 1st 2004, it has been the external European Union border, and since
Selected problems on Polish-Russian cross-border cooperation based on the example of the Vistula Lagoon
Economic cooperation ; Lagoon ; Poland ; Regional economy ; Russia ; Trans-border area ; Wisła
This paper presents selected problems on Polish-Russian cross-border cooperation based on the example of Vistula Lagoon (historical, political and economical background, environmental factors, relationships after May 1st 2004, when the boundary has
California ; Community ; Frontier ; Immigration ; Mexico ; Perception ; Place ; San Diego ; Territorial identity ; Trans-border area ; United States of America
Winner of the Harry and Shirley Bailey Award for outstanding paper be a Ph.D. student at the 1998 annual meeting in Flagstaff, Arizona. Paper focuses on the implementation of and challenges to recent US border patrol policies (Operation Gatekeeper
) in southern San Diego County, California. The border patrol is portrayed as trying to maintain a sense of identity and place comfortable for middle class Americans. At the same time, advocacy groups try to reconceptualize the border and even redefine
citizenship. A. views border more as space of interaction than as a fixed line of demarcation. - (SLD)
The German-Polish frontier and the border region on the Oder and Neisse rivers
Europe ; Frontier ; Frontier region ; Germany ; International cooperation ; Poland ; Political geography ; Regional planning ; Trans-border area
When the border between Germany and Poland was opened in 1989, this led to an enormous increase in road traffic, to small-scale business taking advantage of the discrepancy in purchasing power on both sides of the border, to increased cultural
and social contacts as well as to joint German-Polish activities for improving the environment. The article deals with the border crossing euroregions and the neighbouring and divided cities along the border as focusing points of German-Polish neighbourhood
Border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia along the lower reaches of the Dragonja River
The paper discusses border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia along the lower reaches of the Dragonja River, acute since the two countries gained independence in 1991. It is the most hotly contested border dispute point between the two countries
except for the maritime border in Bay of Piran. The area with small villages of Mlini-Škrile, Bužini and Škodelin is known in the literature as the “area along the Dragonja River”, the area of double records or the case of four villages. The paper begins
by describing reasons for the southern border of the Municipality of Piran from geographic and economic aspects. It focuses on changes of borders from the legal aspect between and after World War Two. Situation on site is described for the last 60 years, based
Assessing cultural-spatial change in European border areas. Theory-based considerations in developing an understanding of social (re)constructions of space
Modelling and benchmarking of borders
Cultural change ; Europe ; Frontier ; Frontier region ; Germany ; Institution ; Learning process ; Social practice ; Trans-border area ; Trans-border cooperation ; Transnationalism
border areas occurs within a process of interaction and communication between different cultures which have their own specific knowledge systems and related social practices. Border regions are regarded as “spaces with opportunities” that provide