As Borders Bend - Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim

Informationen zum Autor Xiangming Chen is dean and director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College. Klappentext This innovative book examines the complexities of de-bordering and re-bordering through a systematic comparison of seven transborder subregions along the western Pacific Rim and an extended analysis of the U.S.-Mexico border and several European border regions. Xiangming Chen offers a synthetic explanation for the complex and diverse processes and outcomes of economic growth, social transformation, and urban landscapes in the new transnational spaces around the porous and mutated borders of the Pacific Rim and beyond. Zusammenfassung This innovative book examines the complexities of de-bordering and re-bordering through a systematic comparison of seven transborder sub regions along the western Pacific Rim and an extended analysis of the US-Mexican border and several European border regions.

Product details

• Authors: Xiangming Chen, Chen Xiangming
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2005
• EAN: 9780742500938
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-0093-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives; Pacific Formations; Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives; Pacific Formations: Global Rel; Pacific Formations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ethnic Studies, Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General