Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1 The World Stage - New Opportunities and Problems -- 1 Boundary Permeability in Perspective -- 2 Information Geopolitics: Blurring the Lines of Sovereignty -- 3 Law, Sovereignty, and Transnationalism: Delivering Social Goods Using a Functional Approach to Borders -- Part 2 Regionalism and Subregionalism in Europe -- 4 European Borders in Transition: The Internal and External Frontiers of the European Union -- 5 Transnational Regionalism, Strategic Geopolitics, and European Integration: The Case of the Baltic Sea Region -- Part 3 Emerging Perspectives -- 6 Transfrontier Regionalism: The European Union Perspective on Postcolonial Africa, with Special Reference to Borgu -- 7 Trans-Maritime Boundary Cooperation in Southeast Asia: Eroding or Enhancing the Importance of International Boundaries? -- Part 4 RedeWning Boundaries in the Americas -- 8 Neoliberal Caribbean Integration: The Role of the ACS in Restructuring Borderlines -- 9 RedeWning the Nature and Functions of Boundaries: A South American Perspective -- Part 5 A Borderless North America? -- 10 Transportation and Competitiveness in North America: The Cascadian and San Diego- Tijuana Border Regions -- 11 ConXicting Transborder Visions and Agendas: Economic and Environmental Cascadians -- 12 Cascadian Adventures: Shared Visions, Strategic Alliances, and Ingrained Barriers in a Transborder Region -- 13 NAFTA and Transportation Corridor Improvement inWestern North America: Restructuring for the Twenty- First Century -- Part 6 Borders as Metaphors -- 14 Permeable Borders and Boundaries in a Globalizing World: Feeling at Home amidst Global Poverty -- 15 Technopoles and Development in a " Borderless" World: Boundaries Erased, Boundaries Constructed -- Part 7 Rethinking Borders - Lines, Spaces, and Continua.

16 Complex Emergency Response Planning and Coordination: Potential GIS Applications -- 17 GoodNeighbour Diplomacy Revisited -- Part 8 Conclusions -- 18 Towards a Geopolitics of Life and Living: Where Boundaries Still Matter -- 19 From the International to the Local in the Study and Representation of Boundaries: Theoretical and Methodological Comments -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.