2 Information Geopolitics: Blurring the Lines of Sovereignty

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. The World Stage–New Opportunities and Problems
5. Boundary Permeability in Perspective 15
6. Information Geopolitics: Blurring the Lines of Sovereignty 26
7. Law, Sovereignty, and Transnationalism: Delivering Social Goods Using a Functional Approach to Borders 50
8. Regionalism and Subregionalism in Europe
9. European Borders in Transition: The Internal and External Frontiers of the European Union 63
10. Transnational Regionalism, Strategic Geopolitics, and European Integration: The Case of the Baltic Sea Region 90
11. Emerging Perspectives
12. Transfrontier Regionalism: The European Union Perspective on Postcolonial Africa, with Special Reference to Borgu 119
13. Trans-Maritime Boundary Cooperation in Southeast Asia: Eroding or Enhancing the Importance of International Boundaries? 142
14. Redefining Boundaries in the Americas
15. Neoliberal Caribbean Integration: The Role of the ACS in Restructuring Borderlines 159
16. RedeWning the Nature and Functions of Boundaries: A South American Perspective 180
17. A Borderless North America?
18. Transportation and Competitiveness in North America: The Cascadian and San Diego-Tijuana Border Regions 200
19. ConXicting Transborder Visions and Agendas: Economic and Environmental Cascadians 222
20. Cascadian Adventures: Shared Visions, Strategic Alliances, and Ingrained Barriers in a Transborder Region 238
21. NAFTA and Transportation Corridor Improvement in WesternNorth America: Restructuring for the Twenty-First Century 268
22. Borders as Metaphors
23. Permeable Borders and Boundaries in a Globalizing World: Feeling at Home amidst Global Poverty 293
24. Technopoles and Development in a “Borderless”World: Boundaries Erased, Boundaries Constructed 308
25. Rethinking Borders – Lines, Spaces, and Continua
26. Complex Emergency Response Planning and Coordination: Potential GIS Applications 333
27. Good Neighbour Diplomacy Revisited 348
28. Conclusions
29. Towards a Geopolitics of Life and Living: Where Boundaries Still Matter 381
30. From the International to the Local in the Study and Representation of Boundaries: Theoretical and Methodological Comments 400
31. Conclusion 414
32. Acknowledgments 420
33. Contributors 421
34. Index 426