Cross-border regions are newly emerging social spaces stretching across national borders. Globalization makes national borders more permeable and leads to a rearrangement of economic and political interactions. This is particularly pronounced within supra-regional blocs featuring specific internal border regimes. The ensuing opportunities are increasingly seized to create border-spanning discourses and institutions. This is illustrated in the book by a range of experts analyzing cross-border regions in Europe, America, East Asia and Africa.

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DAVID ARASE Associate Professor of Politics, Pomona College, Claremont, California BOB JESSOP Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK STEFAN KRÄTKE Professor of Economic and Social Geography, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt JEAN-PHILIPPE LERESCHE Associate Professor, University of Lausanne IRAÊ BAPTISTA LUNDIN Department Head, Socio-Political and Cultural Studies, Centre for Strategic and International Studies JAMES SCOTT Assistant Professor of Geography, Free University, Berlin GUY SAEZ Research Director, CNRS, Researcher at CERAT MATTHEW SPARKE Associate Professor in Geography and International Studies, University of Washington FREDRIK SÖDERBAUM PhD Candidate, Department of Peace and Development Research, Göteborg University

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PART I: INTRODUCTION Globalization, Regionalization and Cross-Border Regions: Scales, Discourses and Governance; M.Perkmann & N.Sum PART II: THEORETICAL APPROACHES The Political Economy of Scale; B.Jessop Globalization, Regionalization and Cross-Border Modes of Growth in East Asia: the (Re-)Constitution of 'Time-Space Governance'; N.Sum Political Frontier Regime: Towards Cross-Border Governance?; J.Leresche & G.Saez PART III: EUROPEAN CROSS-BORDER CO-OPERATION Euroregions: Institutional Entrepreneurship in the European Unions; M.Perkmann Cross-Border Co-operation and Regional Development in the German-Polish Border Area; S.Krätke PART IV: 'GROWTH TRIANGLES' IN EAST ASIA Rearticulation of Spatial Scales and Temporal Horizons of a Cross-Border mode of Growth: the (Re-)Making of 'Greater China' Space of 'Greater China'; N.Sum Japan Sea Regionalism: The Role of sub-National Authorities; D.Arase PART V: CROSS-BORDER CO-OPERATION IN NORTH AMERICA On the Political Economy of Cross-Border Regionalism: Regional Development and Co-operation on the US-Mexican Border; J.W.Scott Not a State, But More than a State of Mind: Cascading Cascadias and the Geo-Economics of Cross-Border Regionalism; M.Sparke PART VI: CROSS-BORDER CO-OPERATION IN AFRICA The Construction of Cross-Border Regions in Southern Africa: the Case of the 'Maputo Corridor'; I.B.Lundin & F.Söderbaum Index