Cross-Border Cooperation in EU Member States: Theoretical Studies and Best Practices
Cross-Border Cooperation in EU Member States: Theoretical Studies and Best Practices

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary border studies reflect continuity and change in scientific thought as well as innumerable contributions to the conceptualization of social space and its workings. The field of border studies has opened up possibilities for questioning the rationales behind everyday border-making by understanding borders as institutions, processes and symbols. The concept of border politics raises a series of interesting questions regarding the power relations involved in the making of borders; this manifests itself, for example, in tensions between the local constitution and external determination of borders in society. The EU‘s border politics is a complex array of programmes, policies, and imaginaries of political community in which borders are used as resources for different specific aims. Cross-border cooperation is a prominent instrument of the EU‘s border politics.

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