Caught in the middle : border communities in the era of globalization / Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Deborah Waller Meyers, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Papademetriou, Demetrios G.

Meyers, Deborah Waller.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regionalism.

Boundaries.

Physical Description:

xi, 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace/Migration Policy Institute : [Distributed by] Brookings Institution Press, [2001]

Summary:

Caught in the Middle provides a fascinating look into the inner workings and realities of border communities along five international borders -- United States-Canada, United States-Mexico, Germany-Poland, Russia-China, and Russia-Kazakhstan.

Contents:

Self-governance along the US-Canada border : a view from three regions / Deborah Waller Meyers and Demetrios G. Papademetriou

Transborder community relations at the U.S.-Mexico border : Laredo/Nuevo Laredo and El Paso/Ciudad Juárez / Nestor Rodriguez and Jacqueline Hagan

Between order and chaos : management of the westernmost border between Mexico and the United States / Gustavo del Castillo V.

National borders : images, functions, and their effects on cross-border cooperation in North America and Europe / Andrea Witt

Made-to-measure strategy : self-governance initiatives in the "Dreilaendereck" / Malgorzata Irek

At the crossroads : Russian-Chinese border interactions / Viktor Larin and Anna Rubtsova

The Russia-Kazakhstan border : a comparison of three regional cases / Grigorii G. Kosach, Alexei S. Kuzmin, and Vladimir I. Mukomel

Appendix : the development of free movement in the European Union / Sandra Schmidt and John Salt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0870031856

OCLC:

47893580