Inter-regional cooperation
The meaning and significance of borders, as
well as their number, has changed drastically in the Nineties because of the
end of the Cold War and the increased flows of capitals, commodities and people
linked to the globalization. The shifting from borders as “barrier” to borders
as “zone of contact” has opened new challenges and opportunities for frontier
regions which begun to act in the international arena. From the Nineties there has
been a boom of the cross-border cooperation at a global level, and in particular
in Europe: the European Union launched a
specific community initiative, INTERREG, within the frames of the cohesion
policy.
This section contains a thematic bibliography
(“Reviews and Special Issues”; “Borders and Cross-Border Cooperation”;
“Internationalization of the Regions”; “Cohesion Policy and INTERREG”;
“Euroregions”; “Non-European Cross-Border Cooperation”); the main references to
the legislation and the documents and reports issued by the European institutions
(European Union and Council of Europe); links to institutional web sites,
INTERREG programmes’ web sites, Euroregions’ web sites, European projects web
sites and research centres’ web sites (with a short description).
Thematic bibliography
Official documents
Links
Contact:
Patrik Vesan patrik.vesan_at_urge.it
