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Cynarski, Wojciech, Kazimierz Obodyński, and Anna Niziot. "Border and Transborder Tourism for European Integration." European Journal of Tourism Research 1, no. 1 (2008): 54–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.54055/ejtr.v1i1.11.
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Sapir, Elena, and Alexander Vasilchenko. "Informal Network Integration and MNEs Territorial Embeddedness: Mapping Differences." Estudios económicos 39, no. 79 (2022): 249–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.52292/j.estudecon.2022.2881.
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This article deals with a theoretical opposition of two similar, but conceptually different spatial models of transborder network cooperation (namely MNEs’ territorial embeddedness and informal network integration) from the aspect of corporate power asymmetry of firms participating in such network structures. Two external phenomena of power asymmetry (symmetry) are presented giving as example cases of territorial embeddedness and informal network integration in North America and East Asia regions. The study is resulted in several features allowing the attribution of specific transborder production systems to be proposed to different types of network structures. The latter is done by a consideration of network characteristics, network effects and specifics of network core and periphery interaction.
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Cierpial-Wolan, Marek. "Directions for development of transborder areas - state and prospects." Statistics in Transition new series 12, no. 3 (2011): 537–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.59170/stattrans-2011-038.
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The processes of integration in Europe cause the need for more and more information concerning transborder areas, thereby growing interest in regional statistics. The reason for this is mainly changes of functions of the borders caused by globalization process. The need for using the results of transborder surveys on the micro-mezo-macroeconomic level gives rise to establishing a consistent research system for these areas. Despite efforts of several international institutions, there still exist problems with lack of information on particular levels of aggregation as well as with data comparability level in individual countries. As a consequence, there is still a need for identification of major research areas and discussion on important methodological aspects relating to transborder areas.
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Kuznetsov, A. V. "Transborder corporate integration in the Baltic Sea Region." Baltic Region, no. 1 (2012): 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.5922/2079-8555-2012-1-2.
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SAKA, Luqman, Adebola Rafiu BAKARE, Humphrey Chinedu NWAORGU, and Sherifdeen Adeoye OLADEJO. "Transborder Crimes and the Challenges of Regional Integration in West Africa: Insights from the Nigeria-Benin Republic Borders." BULLETIN OF "CAROL I" NATIONAL DEFENCE UNIVERSITY 12, no. 1 (2023): 62–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.53477/2284-9378-23-06.
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Transborder crimes and the operation of criminal syndicates have emerged as major threats to security and efforts to advance integration in West Africa. The proliferation of transborder criminal syndicates and rising criminal activities has made member states take steps to curtail these growing challenges, sometimeswith unintended consequences on the free flow of factors of production as enshrined in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Protocol on Free Movement. Informed by the need to understand the challenges that transborder crimes pose within a specific context, this study examinestransborder criminal activities across the Nigeria-Benin Republic border. The study assesses three forms of criminal activities along the two countries’ borderlands and their implications for the security of the two countries concerned. The qualitative method was adopted, and data for the study was derived frommostly secondary and less primary sources. These criminal activities affect the national security of the two countries and impact efforts to advance integration in the sub-region. The study recommends the implementation of joint border security reforms.
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BUFON, MILAN. "SOCIAL INTEGRATION IN THE ITALO-SLOVENE GORIZIA TRANSBORDER REGION." Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie 87, no. 3 (1996): 247–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9663.1998.tb01554.x.
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Pantyley, Viktoriya, Wioletta Kałamucka, and Krzysztof Łoboda. "Inequalities of the Development of Polish-Ukrainian Transborder Regions." Barometr Regionalny. Analizy i Prognozy 16, no. 2 (2018): 183–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.56583/br.379.
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The purpose of the article is the estimation of the level of development of Polish-Ukrainian transborder regions, provision of an outline of problems and perspectives of their development, and of possible ways of solving such problems. The hypothesis states that the border line, on both the Ukrainian and Polish sides, is a powerful negative factor in the development of border regions. It is particularly visible on the Ukrainian side of the border. In order to delimitate the research area, the criterion of its location on counties (administration areas are named: in Poland — “poviat,” in Ukraine — “raion”) frame was applied. Therefore, for the transborder region, we consider administrative units located directly near the border: 9 counties of the Lubelskie and Podkarpackie voivodships for the Polish side, and 10 counties of 3 transborder regions in Ukraine (Lviv, Volyn, and Zakarpattia). For complex analysis of its development, we selected 9 diagnostic variables of sociodemographic, environmental, and economic development. In order to evaluate the level of development of transborder region, the synthetic index of its development was elaborated (Perkal index). The analysis of the spatial distribution of selected variables showed similarities in the development of Polish-Ukrainian transborder regions by environmental aspect, but significant differences in economic and sociodemographic depictions. In the context of the Perkal index, 4 classes of development of administrative units were elaborated. The worst situation regarding development was observed in the Volodymyr Volynskyi County with a level of development of -0,58. The best situation was observed in the case of the Bieszczadzki County with a level of development of 0,50. According to the authors, greater integration of Ukraine with the European Union, and active policy for activation of transborder regions could contribute to a reduction of differences in development of Polish-Ukrainian border regions.
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Reitel, Bernard. "Border Temporality and Space Integration in the European Transborder Agglomeration of Basel." Journal of Borderlands Studies 28, no. 2 (2013): 239–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2013.854657.
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Bitušíková, Alexandra. "Regions and Regionalism in Social Anthropology." Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 18, no. 2 (2009): 28–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2009.180203.
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The article deals with the study of regionalism in European social anthropology with the focus on Slovakia's regions, regional diversities and identities in a broader perspective of European integration and regionalisation. It looks at socio-anthropological research on regionalism worldwide and in Slovakia particularly. The key objective is to examine the impact of geographical conditions and political-administrative reforms on the development of historic regions, sustainability of regionalism and the survival of regional differences and identities in Slovakia. The essay also discusses the creation of transborder regional co-operation and the establishment of Euroregions that only started to develop in the new democratic conditions after 1989. What do transborder regions mean to local people? Are they only bureaucratically constructed entities based on co-operation of formal authorities or do they also have an impact on people's identities? The essay aims at drawing attention to the importance of this research orientation in contemporary European social anthropology.
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Biti, Vladimir. "Post-imperial Europe: Integration through Disintegration." European Review 28, no. 1 (2019): 62–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798719000279.
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In the post-imperial East Central Europe after the dissolution of the German, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman and Russian empires, disappointment was commonplace. The imperial successor states were involved in revengeful animosities with neighbouring states, torn by their majority population’s hatred of domestic minorities, bereft of tens of millions of their co-nationals who had remained in now foreign nation-states, exposed to huge influxes of refugees, and embittered by the territorial concessions that they were forced to make. By contrast, the newly established nation-states were plagued by miserable social and economic conditions, poor infrastructures, unemployment, inflation, rigid and immobile social stratification, and corrupt and inefficient administrations. Such developments gave rise to huge and traumatic deportations and migrations of populations, which, paradoxically, simultaneously immensely increased the mobility of their imagination. Using the technique of ‘subversive mimicry’, these nationally indistinct elements established cross-national transborder communities as the zones of ‘national indifference’ within the new nation-states. Carried by the energy of their longing, these communities introduced imbalances, fissures, and divisions into the nation-state communities, which determined their belonging.
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Chobal, Liudmyla, and Mariya Lalakulych. "PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF COOPERATION OF THE BORDER REGIONS OF UKRAINE, ROMANIA, MOLDOVA AND SLOVAKIA." Baltic Journal of Economic Studies 5, no. 5 (2020): 189. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/2256-0742/2019-5-5-189-196.
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The purpose of the paper is to outline the legal framework for the development of Ukrainian- Moldovan, Ukrainian-Slovak and Ukrainian-Romanian transborder regions (TBR), in particular in the context of intergovernmental agreements, national legislation on issues of cross-border cooperation, agreements between local authorities and regional cross-border regulatory support. The international cooperation of the Western region of Ukraine from the side of the authorities is focused mainly on the western vector, on relations with Poland. In our view, such regional policy leads to increasing regional differences in the socio-economic development of the Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions, in particular their northern and southern parts. The intensification of the cross-border cooperation with Romania will create promising conditions for the transformation of a number of southern regions of the Carpathian region into a zone of accelerated economic development. This can be done through the development of transport, tourism and recreation, finance, logistics infrastructure, which will increase the attractiveness of the territories. And for this it is necessary to create an economic climate in the southern districts of the region, which would help attract foreign investment, especially Romanian, possibly by creating special or free economic zones there. The region has significant untapped potential of the Ukrainian-Romanian interaction that can be harnessed. The Ukrainian-Slovak and Ukrainian-Moldovan cooperation should also be strengthened in the region, the latter especially for the purpose of the European integration of Ukraine and Moldova. To this end, the article outlines the regulatory framework for the development of the Ukrainian-Moldovan, Ukrainian-Slovak and Ukrainian-Romanian transborder regions, in particular in the context of interstate agreements, national legislation on cross-border cooperation, agreements between local authorities and regional transborder security. The article describes the current state of subregional cooperation within the transborder regions, identifies the problematic issues of such cooperation, as well as reveals its content through the lens of the Euroregional cooperation. Methodogy. The dialectical method of scientific knowledge, method of analysis and synthesis, comparative method, method of data generalization are used in the paper. Results of the research. A description of the current state of subregional cooperation within the framework of the TBR is given, the problems of such cooperation are revealed, and its content is revealed through the prism of Euroregional cooperation. The key international projects of the development of the transborder regions were identified and their content and significance were analyzed for the improvement of the ecological safety of TBR, their entrepreneurship development, activation of innovation activities, the development of the border infrastructure, deepening of cultural interaction, improvement of urban development, revival of trade and investment activity in the above-mentioned transborder regions. The perspective directions of development of these TBRs are determined.
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Svitlana, Tolochko. "Reforming of the ukrainian educational system in the context of transborder integration into the world academic space." ScienceRise: Pedagogical Education, no. 2(35) (March 31, 2020): 8–13. https://doi.org/10.15587/2519-4984.2020.198241.
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This article analyzes the experience of forming of the world educational space in the context of transborder integration. The world practice of solving educational problems is considered, essential characteristics of integration processes for further implementation in the educational process of the national educational system are revealed. The reports of the Davos Economic Forum, the INSEAD International Business School, Cornell University and the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Roman Club, the UN Human Development Indexes and Indicators, the World Education Forum, and the Cambridge Assessment non-governmental organization are analyzed. It is confirmed, that reforming of the Ukrainian educational system in the process of integration into the world academic space is due to the development and implementation of the legislative and regulatory documentation in the educational and scientific process of domestic educational institutions. The interim results of the national profile ministry on reforming Ukraine's education system into the academic world are characterized: priorities for 2019 in reforming of Ukraine's educational system in the context of transborder integration and current plans - "To do list" changes - that will be implemented in the fields of education, science and innovation theory. It is stated, that these tasks actualize the increase of HEA and STD teachers’ professional and pedagogical competence. Thus, the Model educational program of organization and carrying out pedagogical workers’ advanced training in postgraduate pedagogical education establishments in the profile of coaches’ and primary school teachers’ basic competences include the following: andragogic, vocational-pedagogical, socio-civic, linguistic and communicative information-digital. It is determined, that the conducted analysis actualized another important teacher’ competence - scientific and methodical, its definition in the author's vision is formulated. The problems of human resources and labor migration in the context of contemporary globalization challenges and the cross-border integration of Ukraine into the world academic space are investigated and recommendations are given for their solution
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Tosic, Branka, and Zora Zivanovic. "Possibilities and limitations of territorial cooperation among Serbian and European towns." Glasnik Srpskog geografskog drustva 93, no. 3 (2013): 11–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/gsgd1303011t.
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This paper deals with the significant European aims of the process of intra-continental integration, as well as the role of the urban centers in its transregional cooperation. Although the process of transborder cooperation of towns exists also in other parts of the world, the roots of that complex form of cooperation appeared rather early in Western Europe. The area of Central Europe, especially the politically unstable southeastern part of the continent, are considerably late in this process. Serbia, especially its western and southern parts, is even more late in transborder regional cooperation of towns. The paper emphasizes that towns of Serbia, as development carriers with their intellectual potentials, have to express the ideas on starting the international actions. The possibilities are extensive: activation of neglected cooperation relations, improvement of technological and economical development, modernization of infrastructural systems, cooperation in culture, education, sports and recreation, environmental protection, etc. Towns need to find the ways for all kinds of cooperation with surrounding towns, if such cooperation gives the results which are favourable for both parties. Isolation from the world courses would lead to long-term stagnation.
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Gerber, James, Francisco Lara-Valencia, and Carlos de la Parra. "Re-Imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border: Policies toward a More Competitive and Sustainable Transborder Region." Global Economy Journal 10, no. 4 (2010): 1850212. http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/1524-5861.1681.
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The U.S.-Mexico border region has two important but often overlooked characteristics. First, it is the physical place of most of the integration between the United States and Mexico, including market driven integration such as trade flows, migration, and investment as well as policy driven integration such as security cooperation, infrastructure development, and emergency response. Second, the border region has a growing transnational population that lives, works, goes to school, and participates in family and social networks on both sides of the border. Recent U.S. policy has hardened the border in response to concerns about terrorism, drug and human trafficking, undocumented migration, and arms smuggling. The consequences of these policies include disruption of the on-going economic integration, large external costs imposed on the growing transnational population, and barriers to progress on a number of issues of national importance, including dispute resolution, migration, and environmental management, among others. The paper identifies and discusses the advantages of the three different definitions of the border in current usage: counties and municipios that touch the border; the 100 kilometer boundary first set by the La Paz Agreement and later amended to 300 kilometers in Mexico and 100 in the U.S.; and the ten states that are along the border. The hardening of the border is partly the result of a lack of border institutions and the inability of border residents to speak in a common voice when they talk to their capitals. This is changing, however, as new institutions such as the Border Governors Conference take on a more active role in promoting the interests of border states and border regions. An examination of a recent Delphi survey of border decision-makers shows a high degree of cross border agreement on the goals and needs of the region in key areas such as competitiveness, security, and sustainability.
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Dinets, Daria, and Albert Dzhavrshian. "International transport corridors and transborder movement of fictitious capital." MATEC Web of Conferences 239 (2018): 03013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201823903013.
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The paper is devoted to the analysis of the peculiarities of international transport corridors as a provider of ideas and instruments of liberalization aimed at assigning transport infrastructure to transnational corporations under the auspices of the development of integration processes and their transport service. To achieve the goal of the study, the authors analyzed a wide range of theoretical and empirical data illustrating the claims of Western and, most recently, Eastern multinational corporations on the sovereignty of Russian infrastructure industries. If international transport corridors include transit through Russia, then participation in them takes the form of export of transport services. At the same time, if investments in infrastructure development are foreign, then the type of income for such operations can be considered as a land rent, since the benefits depend only on the ownership of large or small land plots. The article shows the logical transition from this conclusion to the conclusion about the formation of fictitious capital of Russian infrastructure industries as a result of their inclusion in the activities of international transport corridors. The second hypothesis, which is need to be proved or disproved, is the negative role of UTLC (United Transport and Logistics Company) in achieving rational and fair management of container transportations within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). Summarizing the two lines of the study, the authors concluded that there are risks for national capital and qualitative indicators of the development of infrastructure industries as a result of the active development of international transport corridors.
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Langer, Christian. "Multiculturalism and the multicultural in Ancient Egypt." Fronteiras: Revista Catarinense de História, no. 40 (August 16, 2022): 10–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.36661/2238-9717.2022n40.13022.
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This paper scrutinizes the characterization of ancient Egyptian society as multicultural and the related use of the concept and terminology of multiculturalism in research and public communications on ancient Egyptian society. An initial outline of the concept of multiculturalism sets the stage for a review of its application in specialist literature. It may seem sensible to ascribe multiculturalism or a multicultural reality to Egypt, given its history of migrations. It becomes apparent that a comprehensive theorization of multiculturalism is yet to occur with respect to ancient Egypt. This affects scholarly assessments and perceptions of historical transborder mobility and social integration.
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Barkindo, B. M. "Border region development as impetus for transborder cooperation and integration in Africa: The Nigerian experience." Journal of Borderlands Studies 8, no. 1 (1993): 21–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08865655.1993.9695432.
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Tran, Manh Kha. "KAFALA SYSTEM: EXPLORING INTERSECTIONALITYIN THE INTEGRATION OF MIGRANT WORKERS TO THE LABOR MARKET IN JORDAN." Különleges Bánásmód - Interdiszciplináris folyóirat 9, no. 1 (2023): 197–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.18458/kb.2023.1.197.
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This research project will explore migrant workers’ experiences with the patronage-based kafala system in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. While many research attempts have delved into disclosing the restricted and exploitative aspects of the varying experience of the migrant workers, there is still a dearth of attempts that explore the way the migrant workers flexibly and strategically employ their multiple and intersecting identities to seek upward professional and social mobility. Through the implementation of an intersectional and actor-centered approach, and the use of a qualitative design, this project seeks to explore the dynamic interaction between migrant actors and representatives of institutions in Jordan. By pursuing a qualitative and intersectional analysis of the migrant workers’ experiences with the kafala system, the project aims to contribute to a better understanding of the interplay of transborder mobility and institutional dynamics.
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Perulli, Paolo. "Dossier per il Campo di Ricerca, Innovazione e Formazione del Nord allargato." STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI, no. 2 (May 2012): 151–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/so2011-002007.
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The paper analyzes the supply of research and innovation of Northern Italy in the context of European standards. Weaknesses are the average small size of firms and the incremental innovation of SMEs; strenghts are the ability to create networks of cooperation among firms in R&D and the good integration among firms, the urban creative class and Universities. Research and innovation have been developed mostly through incubators, science parks, technology centers distributed in many Northern Italy cities and regions. Their structures are largely disconnected and a lack of integration among different research clusters emerges. The next European Union ‘Horizon 2020' framework programmes for R§D ask for a great capacity of Nations to build cooperation and integration among their R§D and innovation structures, as well as to develop cross-countries and transborder strategies and joint initiatives. Italy is lagging behind: only the creation of a Research and Innovation Field integrated at Northern Italy's scale and scope will make Italian Universities and research structures able to compete at European level.
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Halász, Iván. "The transborder elections in central Europe opportunities for voting abroad and the political integration of immigrants." Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies 57, no. 2 (2016): 198–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2052.2016.57.2.4.
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Tolochko, Svitlana. "Reforming of the ukrainian educational system in the context of transborder integration into the world academic space." ScienceRise: Pedagogical Education, no. 2(35) (March 31, 2020): 8–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.15587/2519-4984.2020.198241.
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Onufrienko, K. V. "Transborder Raw Materials Toll Manufacturing Agreement: Prospective Partners in the Greater Eurasian Partnership." Moscow Journal of International Law, no. 1 (April 2, 2025): 155–70. https://doi.org/10.24833/0869-0049-2025-1-155-170.
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INTRODUCTION. In the context of enhancing regional integration the legal regulation of international energy cooperation receives a new interpretation in the texts of agreements being signed. This study combines the legal and economic aspects of developing such cooperation. The purpose of the study is to identify potential partners for Russia in terms of practical implementation of raw materials toll manufacturing in the field of oil and natural gas processing among the participants of the Greater Eurasian Partnership, as well as to assess the existing regulatory field. To achieve the aim of the study, the author proposes to classify the countries of Greater Eurasia into groups, and to analyze the readiness of the most promising prospective partners legal frameworks for the implementation of the corresponding cross-border projects.MATERIALS AND METHODS. The methodological basis of the research is grounded in a formal dogmatic approach to the interpretation of international legal acts currently regulating certain aspects of the implementation of cross-border raw materials toll manufacturing. Economic analysis of law is applied to classify prospective partners by the level of economic integration to identify those with whom the author considers it practical to enhance the legal regulation of raw materials toll manufacturing in the field of energy cooperation. Cross-border raw materials toll manufacturing is presented in the context of monism and dualism in international law.RESEARCH RESULTS. As the result, the author identifies four prospective areas for cooperation, namely Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan and China. At the same time, with Belarus and Kazakhstan, the regulatory field is being actively developed, which is associated with certain aspects of the raw materials toll manufacturing being regulated at the level of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), while the international legal basis for such cooperation between Russia and Azerbaijan is practically absent, and between Russia and China it is at the initial stage of formation, but compared to the law of the EAEU it is developed to a much lesser extent. From the viewpoint of private law regulation, there are a number of features of regulation at the national level, and that does not allow us to talk about harmonized approach.DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS. In order to intensify the pace of energy cooperation within the framework of cross-border raw materials toll manufacturing with these countries, the author suggests to focus on the already established law-making and law enforcement practices, by including the necessary norms in the EAEU Treaty or developing acts of doctrinal legal nature that are necessary for harmonization, since at the moment the plan to develop a distinct multilateral agreement for international legal regulation of transborder raw materials toll manufacturing will be difficult to implement.
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Miles, William F. S., and David A. Rochefort. "Nationalism Versus Ethnic Identity in Sub-Saharan Africa." American Political Science Review 85, no. 2 (1991): 393–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1963166.
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Part and parcel of the conventional wisdom about rural publics in Africa is that populations on the periphery will accord ethnic solidarity greater significance than national consciousness. A survey of neighboring Hausa villages on different sides of the Niger-Nigeria boundary counters this myth. Probing issues of self-identity and ethnic affinity, we found that most Hausa villagers on the frontier did not place their Hausan ethnic identity above their national one as citizens of Nigeria or Niger and expressed greater affinity for non-Hausa cocitizens than for foreign Hausas. However, expressed attachments to ethnic, national, and other social identifications (such as religion) varied according to village: citizenship does make a difference in the political consciousness of villagers on the geographic margins of the state. More survey research in other transborder regions should shed further light on processes of state penetration and national integration in developing countries.
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Benchak, Olesia. "Transborder Cooperation in the Carpathian and Barents Regions: Optimization of Management through Comparative Sociological Analysis." Grani 23, no. 8 (2020): 5–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/172070.
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The article is devoted to analysis of the peculiarities of transborder cooperation in the Carpathian and Barents regions and optimization of its management through comparative sociological analysis. The institutional capacity of managing transborder cooperation, in the Barents region of northern Europe, its focus on increasing human capital and reorienting to cluster development can serve as an example for the development of cross-border cooperation in the Carpathian region. This is evidenced by the multifaceted activities of the Barents Euro-Arctic and Barents Regional Councils for the development of cooperation between the border regions and territorial communities, coordination of priorities and implementation of Barents Co-operation programs at the international, intergovernmental and interregional levels, synchronization of their activities in the Arctic region with EU institutions, cooperation leading international structures in Northern Europe, the Arctic and the Baltic. Such institutional experience in the Barents region indicates the feasibility and high potential impact of establishing a new multilateral international instrument for supporting cross-border cooperation in the Carpathian region. This experience should not be copied, but should be implemented taking into account the specifics of the Carpathian region. The author`s position on the methodological foundations of the sociological study of crossborder interactions as a differentiating and solidarizing factor is formulated. Perspective directions of research of cross-border interactions are seen first of all in: creation of international research collectives; elaboration and improvement of sociological tools for monitoring the state and dynamics of cross-border interactions; constructing a system of indicators that characterize the factors of micro, meso, macro and global levels that determine the content of cross-border interactions. The Ukrainian-Slovak, Ukrainian-Hungarian and Ukrainian-Romanian borders as a special space of social differentiation and integration remain extremely unexplored.
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Shi, Tian. "Translocating Trajectories, Transnational Mobilities: The Cross-border Migration and Livelihoods of Hmong in the Tri-state Area Between China, Vietnam, and Laos." China Perspectives 138 (2024): 21–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/12fwf.
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This study investigates the transborder activities of the Hmong people within the tri-state area of China, Vietnam, and Laos, which emphasises their adaptive strategies in the face of evolving geopolitical and economic contexts. Through comprehensive multisite ethnographic fieldwork and snowball sampling, this study captures a wide array of perspectives from individuals directly engaged in industries crucial to the borderlands’ economy, such as tourism, hospitality, and trade. It highlights the Hmong’s utilisation of cultural and linguistic capital to navigate opportunities within and across their transnational networks. Key to their adaptive strategies is the role of South-South cooperation, which fosters regional integration and offers new economic opportunities while also allowing ethnic locals to retain significant aspects of their livelihoods. This study provides insights into how the Hmong community utilises both traditional clan systems and modern entrepreneurial practices to enhance their economic standing and cultural engagement across borders, which contributes to a broader understanding of minority groups’ roles in global and regional development.
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Kuzavko, A. S., and S. V. Silchenkova. "Current trends and prospects for intra-industry trade of dairy products in Russian-Belarusian transborder regions." Lomonosov Economics Journal 59, no. 3, 2024 (2024): 217–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.55959/msu0130-0105-6-59-3-10.
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The article examines the problems of intra-industry trade in dairy products in the Russian-Belarusian transborder regions: integration processes between the two countries have created a stable demand for Belarusian dairy products in Russia that does not contribute to the development of their own production in Bryansk, Pskov and Smolensk regions. The aim of the paper is to determine current trends in intra-industry trade in dairy products in the Russian-Belarusian border region, and outline the prospects for its development in the regions under study. To achieve the goal, the authors use the methods of statistical analysis, Grubel-Lloyd index, statistical observation of dairy products in supermarkets. The authors identify a number of common problems in the dairy industry in Russian bordering regions, such as: low profitability of production, imperfect pricing and competition with suppliers in Belarus. The solution to these problems lies in supporting intra-industry trade between adjacent regions, as well as government support for domestic dairy producers which may contribute to the development of local economy. A promising direction for the development of intra-industry trade in dairy products for all studied regions is the production of new innovative types of products.
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Mazur, Anatolii, and Oksana Kubai. "SCIENTIFIC-METHODOLOGICAL AND PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC SYSTEMS INTEGRATION." Baltic Journal of Economic Studies 5, no. 2 (2019): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/2256-0742/2019-5-2-117-123.
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The purpose of this study is to identify and describe the trans-boundary economic interactions and crossborder development of the regions in various organizational forms of cooperation as a direction of globalization of the regional economic systems. Study of transformational processes in the national economy from the perspective of regionalization of social development opens up a list of scientific problems that are already urgent today and in the future will require new or additional justification. First and foremost, they include justification of the content and essence of economic regions, which operate outside the common market of the state and which are open for other national systems of the world economy within the framework of the interregional cooperation. Practice shows that territorial and economic systems are not limited to political and administrative boundaries but are able to function beyond their borders. This tendency needs scientific and theoretical justification in the meaning of a new paradigm of regional development. Methodology. The methodological basis for the study of theoretical and practical aspects of the functioning and development of regional economic systems in the conditions of interregional cooperation is the modern theories and concepts of regional development, including transborder cooperation. Practical implications. Modern publications do not adequately and deeply consider the issues of the nature of emergence and organization of regional communities’ international interactions, peculiarities of the forms of organization and economic feasibility of their existence. The essence of the research lies in justification of the scientific concept of development of the regions’ cross-border interaction as the objective tendency synthesis of the state and regions in the implementation of the extended economic reproduction. The article deals with the theoretical and practical issues of the regional economic communities’ development in the trans-boundary space of Ukraine. The terminological concepts “national economy” and “economy of Ukraine” are distinguished. And the necessity of promoting for Euroregions creation, expansion of cross-border cooperation was established. Value/ originality. It is established that the modern development of the world economy is based on the interaction of the border regions, which in total provide the cross-border movement of goods and services in the globalized economy.
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Milyukova, Anna, Alla Vladimirovna Kovaleva, and Ekaterina Vladimirovna Valyulina. "Pan-Turkism and geopolitical identity in modern Eurasia: the analysis of representations in the media." Мировая политика, no. 1 (January 2021): 25–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8671.2021.1.34970.
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The subject of research is quantitative and qualitative characteristics of representation of the issue of Pan-Turkism in the Mass Media. The authors study two trends of development of the Pan-Turkism ideas: on the other hand, marginalization, on the other hand - actualization, which corresponds with the periods of crises (wars, epidemics, political crises). As an alternative to separatist movements, the authors name the increase of the role of transborder cooperation in the context of Eurasian integration with the help of the Eurasian Economic Union, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Eurasian Economic Community, and the project of transborder regional cooperation Big Altai. The purpose of the research is to characterise the main media trends of presentation of the Pan-Turkism issue in the Mass Media. The authors demonstrate the assessment of quantitative and qualitative characteristics of media coverage of the ideas of Pan-Turkism (the dynamics of referring; the activity of media in the number of messages and mediaindex, the level, categories, genres, the most remarkable newsworthy events; the role of international social, religious, educational organizations; the position of countries, regions, public figures, government and social organizations and institutions in the media coverage of the Pan-Turkism ideas). The scientific novelty consists in the fact that the context of references to the Pan-Turkism ideas in the media, as well as the media trends in this field which are being formed, almost haven’t been studied. The main conclusions of the research are about the information agenda, formed mainly by the Russian federal Internet media, aimed at the coverage of the Pan-Turkism issues. The most active in the formation of the Pan-Turkism agenda are the Russian pro-government and pro-Armenian media. Turkey, Armenia, Syria, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh have a negative image in the media materials in the context of Pan-Turkism. Russia, the U.S., China. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, as well as such political figures as Recep Erdoğan, Vladimir Putin, Ilham Aliyev and Nikol Vovayi Pashinyan are referred to in a positive context.   
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Li, Linqi, and Zhanya Zhao. "Research on the Legal Protection of Cross-Border Personal Information Flow under the Holistic View of National Security." Frontiers in Business, Economics and Management 19, no. 1 (2025): 9–15. https://doi.org/10.54097/4730a168.
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The cross-border flow and commercial utilization of personal data are central to the globalization of the digital economy. The concept of "cross-border data flow" first appeared in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data in 1980, which initially applied solely to personal data. Since the 21st century, the cross-border flow of data has facilitated global economic integration and innovation, strengthening international collaboration and information sharing. While generating numerous positive effects, cross-border data flow has increasingly complex implications for national security and individual privacy. The need to safeguard national data sovereignty and protect the personal privacy of citizens is paramount, as individuals face heightened risks of personal information leakage and misuse. Furthermore, differing legal and regulatory frameworks concerning personal data across various countries and regions pose legal risks and compliance challenges for cross-border data flows, thereby impacting the protection and security of personal information. In addition, cross-border data flows have given rise to global data security issues that necessitate international cooperation and coordination to address.
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Muhumad, Abdirahman A., and Rose Jaji. "Somali Refugees, Informality, and Self-initiative at Local Integration in Ethiopia and Kenya." Journal on Migration and Human Security 11, no. 1 (2023): 75–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23315024231156390.
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As the number of refugees has continued to grow in post-independence Africa, host governments across the continent have developed stringent refugee policies that are detached from historical transborder relationships in which refugees and host communities interact. The stringent policies are underpinned by the assumption that host communities view refugees from the state-centric perspective of non-citizens as undesirable foreigners or outsiders. Host governments’ insistence that the solution lies in refugees eventually repatriating to their countries of origin drives refugee policies that undermine solutions instead of building and capitalizing on solutions generated at the level of host communities. The exclusion of local histories and social dynamics in host regions has led to policies that neither hold up to humanitarian standards nor serve their intended non-integration objectives. Some host governments are reluctant to implement local integration and have maintained exclusionary policies for a long period of time when the realities in the host communities show that refugees are included and participate in various community activities. Host governments perpetuate this disjuncture between policy and local practice by assuming or pretending that refugees will wait for repatriation instead of finding solutions in the host countries where some of them have lived for decades. Contrary to the non-integration objectives of official encampment policies and scholarship that assumes that the absence of official integration policies deters integration, many refugees have defied the stereotypical portrayal of refugees as “bare life” which denotes prioritization of mere survival as opposed to the quality of life. They have managed to find solutions and live their lives as active and productive members of their host countries. This article specifically addresses the situation of Somali refugees in Ethiopia and Kenya. It argues that the absence of local integration policies or reluctance by host governments to implement them where they exist does not automatically mean that refugees are unable to integrate in their host countries. Host government policies against integration are mediated by refugees’ self-initiative and resourcefulness. These characteristics are facilitated by host communities whose ties and mutual dependence with refugees, cultivated pre- and post-flight, play an important role in engendering solidarity and circumventing policies that hamper refugees’ quest for long-term solutions. Based on the research findings, the paper recommends that host governments pursue policies that are informed by the shared needs and interests between refugee and host communities and that build on the social dynamics and relationships in refugee-hosting regions.
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Smith, Marissa J. "Power of the People’s Parties and a post-Soviet Parliament: Regional infrastructural, economic, and ethnic networks of power in contemporary Mongolia." Journal of Eurasian Studies 11, no. 2 (2020): 107–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1879366520916743.
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In 1994, the new Orkhon Province was created, transforming the status of the Soviet-established federal municipality Erdenet, a major copper-mining center responsible for much of the country’s export revenues and central to ongoing Mongolian–Russian relations. Rather than representing increased participation in national government for Erdenet residents, many of whom are members of transborder minority ethnicities with ties to remote parts of the country, the formation of the province has been controversial locally, as it has meant the introduction of provincial governors, de facto appointed by the Prime Minister. At the same time, the People’s Parties descending from the single state party of the socialist era have in fact been successful at maintaining their networks across the country, and often fielded successful candidates for seats representing Orkhon. Representatives have included the director of a large local construction firm who also held the post of director of foreign trade within the mining enterprise (2008 to 2012, 2016 to present), the son of the mining enterprise’s former General Director (2012 to present), and a politician long based in Ulaanbaatar but central to the MPRP (2016 to present). The situation demonstrates the tension in Mongolian governance between Ulaanbaatar-based centralization and vertical integration on the one hand (also pursued through attempts to privatize the mining enterprise) and the independence of constituencies integrated with regional infrastructural, economic, and ethnic networks built up through long histories of international imperial entanglements on the other.
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Lutsyshyn, Halyna, and Oleksandr Sokolovsky. "Issues of national minorities in the policy of the Eastern Partnership." Nowa Polityka Wschodnia 38, no. 3 (2023): 137–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/npw20233807.
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The peculiarities of implementing the policy of the EU’s Eastern Partnership Initiative in regards to protecting the rights of national minorities have been studied. The issue of national minorities in the EU is considered from the perspectives of security, democracy, and regional integration. Despite contemporary criticism of the EU’s Eastern Partnership Initiative, many initiatives aimed at protecting the rights of national minorities in the region have been implemented, thereby fostering intergovernmental cooperation. It is evident that Ukraine and Moldova are the most proactive in protecting the rights of national minorities amongst the Eastern Partnership countries. These countries have been granted the status of candidate for EU accession. Despite the Russian-Ukrainian war, Ukraine actively works on improving legislation in the field of ethno-policy. Particular emphasis is placed on analysis of the institutional structure of national minorities, communication pathways, and non-discriminatory policies in Eastern Partnership countries. Member states of the Eastern Partnership actively utilize “soft power” techniques through a network of minority organizations. It has been suggested that European integration of Ukraine and Moldova has generated considerable opportunities for the development of national minorities. Loosening of state borders has enabled national minorities to connect more deeply with their ethnic homelands, thereby transforming them into engaged participants of transborder cooperation and significant figures of regional policy. The Eastern Partnership furnishes a platform for minorities to assert themselves in decisions which pertain to their lives, execute grant initiatives, and take part in regional associations of minorities. Nevertheless, certain risks are highlighted, such as particular nations exploiting EU enlargement to tackle minority matters or manipulate minority rights. The EU has analyzed programs supporting national minorities, especially those implemented in the Eastern Partnership countries. While Eastern Partnership countries have developed their policies regarding national minorities, there are common problems faced by minorities in the region. Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Azerbaijan, and Armenia are involved in conflicts, being former Soviet Union countries, and face numerous challenges concerning the functioning of the Russian minority, which is numerically significant in this region. It is stated that the EU cooperates with the Eastern Partnership countries on matters regarding national minorities, and it is crucial to develop innovative models for managing ethnic diversity, promoting the involvement of national minorities in making socio-political decisions and integrating them into society.
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Barikova, Anna. "Discretion and electronic communications markets: O-RAN perspective." Naukovij vìsnik Nacìonalʹnoï akademìï vnutrìšnìh sprav 28, no. 3 (2023): 38–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.56215/naia-herald/3.2023.38.
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In the period of post-war reconstruction, an urgent issue for Ukraine will be the issue of integration into the supranational infrastructure of the European Union, including the electronic communications industry. Given the above, the research aims to reveal the impact of discretion on a digital single market in the electronic communications area. Using the dialectical general philosophical method, a current era of discretion in a post-industrial society, which is closely associated with a large-scale digitalization of all processes of building new models of technical solutions in the context of revolutionary standalone, evolutionary non-standalone, compromise approaches, is presented. Using the specific scientific system-structural method, the structure of the Open Radio Access Network framework for the convergence of the electronic communications market, such as open internal RAN stack interfaces (HTTP Live Streaming; Lan-Like Switching), open Northbound interfaces (management, optimization, orchestration), open interfaces for hardware and software disaggregation (vRAN functions running on Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure), was demonstrated. The evolution of RAN has gained special attention in the context of openness and virtualization, using the general scientific formal empirical method of comparison, based on a combination of Open Radio Access Network and Cloud Radio Access Network regarding vRAN as a key enabling technology. The practical value of the results is that key issues of legal policy and the prospects of its coordination with revolutionary transborder processes of building a coherent GAIA-X network ecosystem based on a new generation communication technology have been revealed, including privacy, justice and non-discrimination, responsibility, consistency with human rights
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Lavrushchenko, Yu O. "DIRECTIONS OF THE BALANCED DEVELOPMENT OF THE UKRAINIAN TRANSPORT SYSTEM IN CONDITIONS OF THE MARKET OF TRANSPORT SERVICES GLOBALIZATION." Economic innovations 20, no. 3(68) (2018): 136–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.31520/ei.2018.20.3(68).136-144.
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Topicality. The relevance of a problem of development of world economic communications, an advantageous geopolitical position of Ukraine which is on crossing of the major trade ways reveals economic prerequisites and regional aspects of creation of logistics transport and distributive systems when forming strategy of service of transport freight traffics through the territory of Ukraine.Also tendencies of development of world economic communications predetermine expansion of production communications and the international economic cooperation. However the uneven constant growth of transnational and transborder streams and the international transit predetermines new tasks and problems of management of commodity and cash flows.Aim and tasks. Among the priority directions of transport policy, along with development of technical means of transport, need of updating of its fixed assets at qualitatively new level, introductions of new progressive technologies, informatization of transportation process, problems of ensuring coordination of activity of different types of transport, development of intermodal transportation of goods in the international transport corridors, the complex solution of regional transport tasks are allocated, to integration of the Ukrainian market of transport services into the world transport system.Research results.The major theoretical and practical task is creation of system of integrated management of balance of interests and efficiency of functioning of the integrated transport systems.It is necessary to pay attention to basic value for the integrated aspirations of Ukraine in a sea economic complex. The role of a sea economic complex of Ukraine is not realized sufficiently therefore the target national program of stability of functioning of merchant marine fleet, seaports, ship-building base and service divisions of a complex is not developed. Control of sustainable development of a transport component of a sea economic complex has to be exercised according to the method given (formula 1). Then parameters of stability of a sea transport complex have to be regulated on the basis of the principle of sufficiency of potential by macroeconomic results.Conclusions. Participation of the national fleet and ports in development of integration processes on transport in the conditions of globalization of world economy has to be based on organizational and economic prerequisites of formation and development of the integrated transport and distributive systems at the regional, interregional and international levels.
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Velasco Ortiz, Laura. "De fronteras, documentos y experiencias de movilidad laboral entre México-Guatemala / Borders, documents and labor mobility experience in the Mexico-Guatemala región." Revista Trace, no. 82 (July 31, 2022): 154. http://dx.doi.org/10.22134/trace.82.2022.823.
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El propósito del presente artículo es comprender el efecto de las políticas de control fronterizo —centradas en la documentación migratoria— sobre la experiencia de la movilidad laboral transfronteriza en el estado de Chiapas, México, a través de una investigación cualitativa en la localidad de Frontera Comalapa. El análisis de los resultados señala la existencia de una zona libre, donde el estatus migratorio aún parece tener una influencia incipiente en la calidad de la experiencia del cruce fronterizo entre la población guatemalteca que cruza constantemente y en la inserción e integración laboral, a la inversa de lo que sucede con el tránsito hacia el norte de México y Estados Unidos de América, donde hay una mayor vigilancia del Estado.Abstract: The aim of this article is to understand the effect of border control policies —focused on migrant documentation— on the experience of cross-border labor migration in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, through a qualitative research at the town of Frontera Comalapa. The analysis of the results indicates the existence of a free zone, where the migratory status still seems to have an incipient influence on the quality of the border crossing experience and in the labor integration process; the reverse of what happens with the transit to the north of Mexico and the United States, where there is greater surveillance by the State.Keywords: borders; identity documentation; transborder labor mobility; immigration status; Mexico-Guatemala border; Guatemalan migration.Résumé : Le but de cet article est de comprendre l’effet des politiques de contrôle aux frontières — axées sur la documentation d’migrate — sur l’expérience de la migration de main-d’oeuvre transfrontalière dans l’État du Chiapas, au Mexique, à travers une enquête qualitative de la ville de Frontera Comalapa. L’analyse des résultats indique l’existence d’une zone franche, où le statut migratoire semble encore avoir une influence naissante sur la qualité de l’expérience de passage des frontières ou en insertion dans l’emploi; l’inverse de ce qui se passe avec le transit vers le nord du Mexique et des États-Unis, où il y a une plus grande surveillance par l’État.Mots-clés : double frontière ; mobilité transfrontalière de la main-d’oeuvre ; documents d’immigration ; frontière Mexique-Guatemala ; migration guatémaltèque.
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Szejgiec-Kolenda, Barbara, and Patryk Duma. "Powiązania handlowe wewnątrz makroregionu Morza Bałtyckiego – w kierunku integracji regionalnej = Trade linkages within the Baltic Sea region – towards regional integration." Przegląd Geograficzny 92, no. 4 (2020): 609–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.7163/przg.2020.4.8.
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Two events exerted an essential influence on the development of collaboration in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) in the 21st century, namely: extension of the EU in 2004, due to which Baltic Sea became the inner sea of the EU (except for the Russian coast), and the elaboration and implementation in 2009 of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, which established the framework for the contemporary deepening of cooperation among the Baltic states inside the EU structures. The initially adopted model of cooperation concentrated on the key environmental issues, to then get extended towards the policy domain, including the transborder policies (institutional cooperation), as well as transport and economic connections (Palmowski, 2017). The article, while following the stream of the current studies of the BSR as an economic region, tries to fill the gap of complexity and dynamism of development processes, concerning the scale and intensity of mutual economic relations in relation to BSR. Thus, the article presents the basic aspects, associated with the introduction of the macroregional strategies in the EU and a short description of the economic integration process of the BSR. Analysis is presented of the most important regularities regarding trade exchange between the countries of the BSR, with consideration of the quantitative changes (volume, dynamics), and of the structural ones (specialization of trade in goods and services), as well as the trade linkages at the local level, as seen from the perspective of Polish exports (case study). International comparisons are based primarily on the economic data on foreign trade in goods and in services. The analysis concentrates on the assessment of the transformations in the years 2011 2019 (for trade in services: 2011 2018), that is – already after the establishment of the Strategy and the period of recession, resulting from the global crisis of 2008. In the course of the recent years the changes in the trade linkages considered brought a significant increase in the volume of trade, both concerning goods and services (46.3%), which confirms the initial proposition of the deepening integration within the BSR. Yet, this process takes place in a spatially uneven manner, and it is significantly stronger for the trade in goods than for the services. Internal trade inside the region accounts for as much as 23.7% of the total trade of the BSR countries (this share for the EU countries amounting to 60.0%). Nowadays, the internal trade with the BSR countries is of the highest importance for the small economies of the Baltic states, which is partly due to their intermediate position between Western Europe and Eastern Europe (including, especially, Russia). The analysis of the spatial development of trade with the Nordic countries at the local level in Poland demonstrates the persistence of the applicability and popularity of the gravity models in the study of regula ities, associated with the development of export relations; for the local economies the distance to the sales market and the local economic base are the essential factors, differentiating the magnitude and the significance of exports, in this case – to the Nordic countries. The macroregional Strategy might be treated as a new form of diversified integration within the EU, while the elaborated instruments of the policy and the strategy implementation process can be seen as the response to the need of the cohesion policy, dedicated to the particular areas of supranational dimensions (Gänzle & Kern, 2016). The BSR is strongly internally differentiated, this statement applying to economic, social and demographic aspects (Kubka, 2018). Moreover, it can be expected that the region will remain a heterogeneous area (Laaser & Schrader, 2002), also in terms of the regional trade patterns. Thereby, new questions arise, concerning the further process of economic integration and the specificity of cooperation in the framework of the BSR.
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Melachio Tanekou, Tito Tresor, Calmes Ursain Bouaka Tsakeng, Inaki Tirados, et al. "Impact of a small-scale tsetse fly control operation with deltamethrin impregnated “Tiny Targets” on tsetse density and trypanosomes’ circulation in the Campo sleeping sickness focus of South Cameroon." PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 17, no. 11 (2023): e0011802. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011802.
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Background Significant progress has been made towards African sleeping sickness elimination in the last decade. Indeed, the World Health Organization (WHO) global goal of eliminating the chronic form of the disease as a public health problem was achieved in 2020 (i.e., < 2,000 new cases per year). Vector control has played an important role in achieving this goal. In this study, we evaluated the impact of the insecticide impregnated Tiny Targets on tsetse fly densities and their infection rates with Trypanosoma spp in the Campo sleeping sickness focus of South Cameroon. Methods The study site was divided into two areas: (i) the south-west experimental area, which included vector control, and (ii) the eastern part as the non-intervention area. After compiling the baseline entomological data (tsetse densities and trypanosome infection rates), around 2000 Tiny Targets were deployed in the South-West area and replaced every six months for two years. Post-intervention surveys were conducted every six months to determine tsetse densities and levels of trypanosome infections with PCR-based methods. Results Following the intervention, tsetse mean catches decreased by 61% after six months, and up to 73% after twelve months (pre-intervention: 2.48 flies/trap/day, 95%CI [1.92–3.14]; 12-months post-intervention: 0.66 tsetse/trap/day, 95%CI [0.42–0.94]). This decrease was not sustained after 18 months, and the mean catch doubled compared to that after 12 months. After 24 months, the mean catches still increased by 17% (18 months: 1.45 tsetse/trap/day, 95%CI [1.07–1.90] and 24 months: 1.71 tsetse/trap/day, 95%CI [1.27–2.24]). In the non-intervention area, a variation in tsetse catches was observed during the two years, with a general increase from 2.43 [0.73–5.77] to 3.64 [1.47–7.70] tsetse/trap/day. In addition, trypanosome infection rates dropped by 75% in both areas (P-value < 0.001) from 21.20% to 5.06% and from 13.14% to 3.45% in intervention and control areas respectively. Conclusion Tiny targets have proven useful in reducing tsetse population densities and trypanosome infection rates, providing evidence for the integration of this tool in current strategies towards trypanosomiasis elimination in Campo. The non-sustained decrease of tsetse densities after one year may indicate reinvasions from neighbouring breeding sites or that the intervention area was not large enough. Our results show the need to scale up by accessing difficult breeding sites and extend the tiny targets to the whole transborder focus.
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Maslov, Yurii. "THE EU STRATEGY FOR THE DANUBE REGION AS AN INCLUSIVE FORM OF CROSS-BORDER ECONOMY." Baltic Journal of Economic Studies 4, no. 5 (2019): 200. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/2256-0742/2018-4-5-200-208.
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The article considers the process of creation and features of activities of various types of transborder formations peculiar for the European Union. Today the cooperation within Euroregions becomes more and more widespread practice both in the EU and among the regions of countries-participants of the Union and those ones neighbouring to the EU, including Ukraine. The problem of modernization of the EU regional policy in the context of the intensification of globalization processes is touched upon. The influence of global factors and changes in the EU regional policy on the transformation of Ukrainian regional policy is determined. In the context of the development of the regional policy of Ukraine, problems of economic development and well-being of citizens in Ukrainian regions are identified; development directions for the cooperation of Ukraine and the EU in this area are established. The purpose of the article is to consider issues of cross-border economy, cross-border region, classify them, define features of Euroregion and, based on the analysis conducted, consider imperatives and problems related to the development and introduction of the Danube Strategy and identify the place and opportunities of Ukraine in this association. The macro-regional approach to solving the tasks of the integration policy of the European Union chosen by the European Union Committee allows uniting the territories according to the principle of their mutual supplementation, reducing the barriers of national borders and creating new opportunities for cross-border regions. The Danube Strategy, despite the common principles and methodologies for the formation of Euroregions, has obvious features. Firstly, the region is characterized by deep imbalances both between countries and within countries themselves. Secondly, the Strategy is an example of a multidisciplinary approach to territorial planning in the region and has a pronounced ecological character, and environmental problems are solved in the search for a compromise with the tasks of socio-economic development. Thirdly, being the internal strategy of the European Union, however, has a significant external dimension, the incorporation of which can be quite a challenge. There are four main directions for the regional development in the Danube Strategy (so-called “pillars”: association, ecology, well-being, strengthening). For each direction, priority areas are designated that are supervised by the coordinating countries. Conceptually, the EUSDR is a continuation of the Europe-2020 strategic document of the EU and proclaims the achievement of the region of “smart, sustainable and inclusive development” as its main objectives. At the same time, a kind of paradox is that the Danube strategy aimed at levelling social, economic, institutional gaps in the region generates them by the very principles of its existence. It is hard to imagine that unequal countries, getting too different funding, will be able to equalize their capabilities at the finish. The strategy will help realize the EU’s obvious desire to transform the Danube into an internal transport artery with a highly developed infrastructure and improved cargo traffic, which will allow connecting the North Sea with the Black and Azov seas, placing the transportation of resources of Caspian region and Asia under control of European structures. The creation and activity of cross-border regions make a significant contribution both to the strengthening of political and economic integration within the EU and to the development of cooperation between the member countries of the Union and neighbouring states.
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Zhabskiy, M., and K. Tarasov. "Globalization of Cinematographic Communication." International Trends / Mezhdunarodnye protsessy 20, no. 3 (2023): 28–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.17994/it.2022.20.3.70.4.
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The article examines the globalization – in its Americanization format – of the international cinematic communication within the perspective of the cultural diversity issue. The globalization process is comprehended as a result of the historical succession of market formations: from free competition in American cinema to an oligopoly and on to a national and an international monopoly. During the period of polipoly, the trail for globalization was blazed by the grande dame of the cinématographe: France. The United States, where in 1908 the market share of French films equaled 70%, mounted a resolute challenge. Under consideration are three factors – institutional, geopolitical, and creative – of the loss by the French of their domination over the American and, then, their own market. To the soft power of American cinema, the French state responded with the quota stimulation for the exhibition of national films, motivating it, among other things, by the necessity of providing for the external and internal security of the state, by the guardianship of customs and national traditions. To the quotas as a means of mitigating the soft power of the United States did recourse some other countries too: larger ones, for economic considerations; smaller ones, for cultural. The globalizational might of the American film industry is explained through the rational choice of the main line for its stylistic development and the filmmakers’ masterfulness, as well as through the professionalism of managemental and marketing actors, investment from big capital, and through support from government in its push for the «cultural hegemony» of the United States. The major studios that emerged during the period of oligopoly (1909– 1929) competed with one another on the terms of a certain accord. With the means of competing by supercostly investments, far beyond the capabilities of smaller studios, the majors established for the domestic market a regime of national monopoly (1930–1946). On the world market the elected method of competition enabled the American film industry, in the second half of the 1940s, to gain the position of the international monopolist. An important role in the process was played by Motion Picture Export Association, established in 1945: a sort of «a diplomatic service» that functioned with permission from and under the support of the U.S. government. From its position of the global monopolist the American film industry strives not only to dominate in the intercultural cinematic communication, but, in this status and as a means of the popular geopolitics, to control it through lobbying and by exporting capital and goods. The transborder circulation of products by various national cinemas and cultural diversity of cinematography have largely fallen prey the globalization process. On the basis of vast factual research is recreated the state of the art for the imbalance in the intercultural film communication. When, in a socialfunctional respect, the importing of films mainly supplants their production in a certain country, the socium, by a large magnitude, is deprived of the chance to reproduce its culture and, accordingly, its identity with the means of depicting its own image and of mastering it. The making of national cinematic picture of the world and its integration into the communicative process becomes a topical task of providing for cultural diversity.
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Bujanda, Arturo, Rafael Aldrete, and Ulises Navarro. "Estimating Transborder Trips Integrating Binational Communities as Single Transportation System: Learning from Binational Model for El Paso, Texas–Ciudad Juarez, Mexico." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2302, no. 1 (2012): 51–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2302-06.
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Marcot, Bruce G., Sergei S. Ganzei, Tiefu Zhang, and Boris A. Voronov. "A sustainable plan for conserving forest biodiversity in far East Russia and northeast China." Forestry Chronicle 73, no. 5 (1997): 565–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc73565-5.
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An ongoing, trinational project is providing the first environmentally sustainable economic development plan for the Ussuri River watershed (URW) in Far East Russia and northeast China. The URW is host to a unique mix of northern taiga and southern subtropical biota, and contains many endemic, relict, and highly threatened species of plants and animals. In Russia, severe monetary inflation and a shift to a market economy have left some aspects of forest biodiversity in jeopardy, particularly policing for wildlife poachers, regulating CITES (international wildlife trafficking) violations, ensuring long-term sustained production of timber and non-timber forest products, protecting unique habitats, and adequately staffing scientific reserves and funding needed research. In China, broad scale conversion of remaining wetlands to agriculture and rice paddies, and of diverse native forests to intensively managed, monocultural plantations, is helping to sustain the economy but is sacrificing biodiversity. A proposed sustainable land use plan has (1) mapped resource use areas, including both proposed and existing transborder nature areas, (2) encouraged foreign investment in both countries, and (3) encouraged sustainable development of natural resource markets that will be compatible with long-term conservation of biodiversity. A hallmark of this plan is integrating the needs of the people with the capacity of the land through both environmental protection and wise resource use. Key words: Russia, China, Far East, Ussuri River watershed, biodiversity, sustainable, land use plan, wildlife
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Dos Santos, Gleicy Ane Oliveira, and Eliana Machado Schuber. "REPERCUSSÕES ESPACIAIS DO PROJETO ARCO NORTE NO DISTRITO DE CAMPO VERDE – ITAITUBA/PA." InterEspaço: Revista de Geografia e Interdisciplinaridade 4, no. 12 (2018): 252. http://dx.doi.org/10.18764/2446-6549.v4n12p252-263.
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SPACE REPERCUSSIONS OF ARCO NORTE PROJECT IN THE CAMPO VERDE DISTRICT – ITAITUBA/PAREPERCUSIONES ESPACIALES DEL PROYECTO ARCO NORTE EM EL DISTRITO DE CAMPO VERDE – ITAITUBA/ PAO presente artigo é fruto do projeto de extensão intitulado “Levantamento socioeconômico das áreas de influência das estações de transbordo de cargas (ETC) no município de Itaituba (PA), distrito de Campo Verde”, realizado pelo Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Pará (IFPA), Campus Itaituba, no período de agosto a dezembro de 2015, em parceria com a Prefeitura Municipal de Itaituba. Esse projeto caracterizou a dinâmica urbana do Distrito de Campo Verde, no município de Itaituba, sudoeste do Estado do Pará, a partir da forte pressão socioambiental exercida pelo projeto logístico de âmbito federal, denominado de “Arco Norte”, traduzido como uma nova rota para o escoamento da produção agrícola (grãos) do Centro-Oeste do país, utilizando a integração de eixos rodoviários, fluviais e ferroviário. Este artigo discute a repercussão espacial dos empreendimentos portuários no distrito de Campo Verde a partir dos dados socioeconômicos coletados pelo projeto, em 253 domicílios. Inicialmente apresenta-se uma caracterização da infraestrutura urbana atual do distrito, através de dados relativos ao saneamento, regularização fundiária, habitação e equipamentos disponíveis, correlacionando a percepção atual dos moradores referente a qualidade de vida. Em segundo momento, segue uma análise sobre ações de planejamento que possam assegurar a permanência de espacialidades construídas e combater a especulação imobiliária, garantindo alguns hábitos que se caracterizem como próprios dos moradores locais.Palavras-chave: Produção do Espaço Urbano; Impactos Socioeconômicos; Qualidade de Vida.ABSTRACTThis article is the result of an extension project titled "Socioeconomic survey of the areas of influence of cargo transshipment stations (ETC) in the municipality of Itaituba (PA), district of Campo Verde", carried out by the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Pará (IFPA), Itaituba Campus, in the period of August to December 2015, in partnership with the Municipality of Itaituba. This project characterized the urban dynamics of the Campo Verde District, in the municipality of Itaituba, southwest of the State of Pará, due to the strong socio-environmental pressure exerted by the federal logistic project, called "Arco Norte", translated as a new route for the flow of agricultural production (grain) from the Center-West of the country, using the integration of road, river and rail. This article discusses the spatial repercussion of the port enterprises in the district of Campo Verde from the socioeconomic data collected by the project in 253 households. Initially, a characterization of the current urban infrastructure of the district is presented through data on sanitation, land regularization, housing and available equipment, correlating the current perception of the residents regarding the quality of life. Secondly, it follows an analysis of planning actions that can assure the permanence of constructed spaces and combat real estate speculation, guaranteeing some habits that are characterized as own of the local residentsKeywords: Production of Urban Space; Socioeconomic Impacts; Quality of Life.RESUMENEl presente artículo es fruto del proyecto de extensión titulado "Levantamiento socioeconómico de las áreas de influencia de las estaciones de transbordo de cargas (ETC) en el municipio de Itaituba (PA), distrito de Campo Verde", realizado por el Instituto Federal de Educación, Ciencia y Tecnología de Pará (IFPA), Campus Itaituba, en el período de agosto a diciembre de 2015, en asociación con el Municipalidad de Itaituba. Este proyecto caracterizó la dinámica urbana del Distrito de Campo Verde, en el municipio de Itaituba, suroeste del Estado de Pará, a partir de la fuerte presión socioambiental ejercida por el proyecto logístico de ámbito federal, denominado "Arco Norte", traducido como una nueva ruta para el flujo de la producción agrícola (granos) del Centro-Oeste del país, utilizando la integración de ejes viales, fluviales y ferroviarios. Este artículo discute la repercusión espacial de los emprendimientos portuarios en el distrito de Campo Verde a partir de los datos socioeconómicos recogidos por el proyecto, en 253 domicilios. Inicialmente se presenta una caracterización de la infraestructura urbana actual del distrito, a través de datos relativos al saneamiento, regularización agraria, vivienda y equipamientos disponibles, correlacionando la percepción actual de los habitantes referente a la calidad de vida. En segundo momento, sigue un análisis sobre acciones de planificación que puedan asegurar la permanencia de espacialidades construidas y combatir la especulación inmobiliaria, garantizando algunos hábitos que se caractericen como propios de los habitantes locales.Palabras clave: Producción del Espacio Urbano; Impactos Socioeconómicos; Calidad de Vida.
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Smith, David J. "Secure in Diversity? Transborder Ethnicity, Transnational Minority Activism, and Ontological (In)Security in the European Union." Journal of Global Security Studies 10, no. 1 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogae033.
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Abstract The liberal vision of the early 1990s envisaged the eastward extension of the Western European security community formed during the Cold War, based on intergovernmental cooperation and integration around the shared norms embodied by the European Union (EU), Council of Europe, and Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Yet, transborder ethnic ties have remained a security concern within the “New Europe.” As well as the external challenges posed by Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, growing transborder nationalism exhibited by Hungary and other states has also become a focus of tensions within the EU. These intra-EU concerns, I argue, should be understood primarily as an issue of ontological security and as part of a multilevel security dilemma implicating states, EU institutions, and national minorities as security-seeking non-state actors. The article focuses on the Federal Union of European Nationalities—a transnational umbrella NGO that in 2013–2021 led an unsuccessful European Citizens’ Initiative named “Minority SafePack” (MSPI) calling upon the European Commission to legislate on firmer guarantees of minority rights within EU member states. Applying the ontological security lens to the study of MSPI, I illustrate how it reflects specific claims voiced by transborder kin-minority activists consistently over the past century, before analyzing the counter-securitizing arguments deployed against it by states. Although MSPI was approved with a large majority within the European Parliament, the Commission ultimately rejected it. I consider why this was the case, as well as the implications of the rejection for the in varietate concordia concept that supposedly undergirds the European project.
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Macklin, Audrey. "(In)Essential Bordering: Canada, COVID, and Mobility." Frontiers in Human Dynamics 2 (December 23, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2020.609694.
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The global migration of COVID-19 not only disrupted transborder movement. In many (if not most) states, statis, and closure became the default norm at and within borders. This, in turn, generated exceptions organized around an idea of “essential” entry. The category of “essential” was produced, revised, and represented through the interaction of pandemic-driven exigencies and nationally specific configurations of the legal, political, and economic forces in play. To understand how the admission into Canada of certain people was accepted as legally, economically and/or politically essential, one must take account of Canada's character as a settler society, its economic integration with the United States, and its growing dependence on migrant workers and international students to subsidize food production and higher education for nationals.
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Calder, Ryan, Emil Dimanchev, Stuart Cohen, and Ryan A. McManamay. "Decision support for U.S. – Canada energy integration is impaired by fragmentary environmental and electricity system modeling capacity." Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, September 2, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2634-4505/ad763e.
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Abstract The renewable energy transition is leading to increased electricity trade between the United States and Canada, with Canadian hydropower providing firm lower-carbon power and buffering variability of wind and solar generation in the U.S. However, long-term power purchase agreements and transborder transmission projects are controversial, with two of four proposed projects cancelled since 2018. Here, we argue that controversies are exacerbated by a lack of open-source data and tools to understand the economic, environmental, and health tradeoffs of new hydropower generation and transmission infrastructure in comparison to alternatives. This gap includes impacts that incremental transmission and generation projects have on the economics of the entire system, for example, how new transmission projects affect exports to existing markets or incentivize new generation. We identify priority areas for data synthesis and model development, such as integrating linked hydropower and hydrologic interactions in energy system models and openly releasing (by utilities) or back-calculating (by researchers) hydropower generation and operational parameters. Publicly available environmental (e.g., streamflow, precipitation) and techno-economic (e.g., costs, reservoir size,) data can be used to parameterize freely usable and extensible models. Existing models have been calibrated with operational data from Canadian utilities that are not publicly available, limiting the range of scientific and commercial questions these tools have been used to answer, and the range of parties that have been involved. Studies conducted using highly resolved, national scale public data exist in other countries, notably, United States, and demonstrate how greater transparency and extensibility can drive industry action. Improved data availability in Canada could facilitate approaches that (1) increase participation in decarbonization planning by a broader range of actors; (2) allow independent characterizations of environmental, health, and economic outcomes of interest to the public; and (3) identify decarbonization pathways consistent with community values.
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Polner, Mariya. "Coordinated Border Management: From Theory to Practice." World Customs Journal 5, no. 2 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.55596/001c.92724.
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In a globalised world where interconnectedness and integration are key dynamics influencing economic growth and social development, policymakers increasingly realise the need for accelerated transborder regulatory reform to remove unnecessary barriers and burdens on trade. The World Customs Organization (WCO) in its Customs in the 21st century document has captured these critical concepts for reform within the theme of Coordinated Border Management (CBM). For Customs, CBM is about describing how improved regulatory efficiency and effectiveness can be realised through greater coordination between border agencies during policy development and operational activities, both domestically and internationally. This paper considers the meaning of the CBM concept for the customs community in particular and border agencies in general. It provides an overview of the evolution of the concept, which serves as a theoretical underpinning for further policy development. As the CBM concept is broad and offers numerous interpretations, operational arrangements, such as joint mobile teams, hot pursuit, joint risk management, and targeting centres are not addressed, nor does the paper analyse information exchange systems, in particular the Single Window that forms an intrinsic part of CBM. Instead, the paper focuses on institutional and some practical border arrangements developed in several countries as part of a CBM implementation strategy, and concludes by suggesting areas for further research.
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Ulrich, Peter. "Institutionalizing (cross-border) citizenship on subnational level – The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) as new administrative space for participatory and functional governance in Europe." Federal Governance 13, no. 1 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/fg.v13i1.6023.
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Cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation of subnational entities within the European Union have been strengthened politically, legally and financially by the EU and the Council of Europe. Nearly every border region in the EU participates in some form of cooperation structure across borders – mainly due to financial support by the EU joint initiative INTERREG. In general, these Europeanization effects of regional administrative integration have been described by scholars using neofunctionalist (multilevel governance) and intergovernmentalist approaches highlighting the cooperation rationale of cross-border actors.The aim of the research project is to go a step ahead following a conceptual shift towards a normative - participatory approach of (cross-border) regional integration. On the basis of the EU legal instrument European Grouping of territorial cooperation (EGTC), processes of re-scaling, re-territorialization and paradiplomacy in a “Europe of the territories” will be analyzed with regard to inclusiveness and modes of subnational participatory governance.In general, policy-making and strategic development of the EU regional policy, particularly the European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) are products of a successive bargaining and functional technocratic regulation between the administrative elites within the EU multilevel (supranational, national, subnational) polity excluding the local community. The aim of the research project is thus to elaborate forms and channels of transborder participatory governance in EU transnational spaces and to examine pre-conditions for the establishment of an increased inclusion of a cross-border citizenship. Moreover, it focuses on the problems and obstacles of the institutionalization of deliberative and participatory mechanisms of a subnational citizenship in a postnational multilevel arena. Finally, the research - that is based on a case study of the EGTC Galicia-Norte de Portugal - analyzes to what extent the EGTC foster both the consolidation of cross-border cooperation and institutionalization of transnational participation on a subnational level.
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"Strategic Integration of Catchment Level Natural and Structural Methods of Sustainable Flood Management: A Case Study of River Wharfe Catchment Area." Advances in Earth and Environmental Science, May 17, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.47485/2766-2624.1043.
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Water has a crucial place in the advent of humankind the flourishing of mega population centres, and is an essential source of food, water transportation, and irrigation. The anthropogenic activities in taming the natural water streams to the optimum benefit of human beings disturb natural flood plains, ecology and habitat. The channelisation of streams and hydromodifications in dams, barrages or reservoirs result in climatic variations locally/ regionally and impact transborder stream flow. Researchers have been endeavouring to restore the flood plains to their natural conditions. Still, huge hydromodifications and the development of megacities right in the flood plains or adjacent to the streams have resulted in irreversible disturbances to the natural lay of ground/ landscape. Therefore, to avoid flooding disasters, further structural interventions are undertaken to augment the natural flood prevention methods using advanced materials like cement concrete, steel, and polymers rather than increasing the emissions of greenhouse gases. Considering the strategic necessity of engineering structures as an integrated catchment level solution to augment the natural methods, the researchers/ engineers are now focussing on the use of sustainable, eco-friendly materials and demountable/ hydraulic structures to minimise the carbon footprints of hydromodifications and to decrease the obstruction to the natural flow of streams by using the flood prevention structures/ gates/ walls/ reservoirs only in case of disastrous flooding and otherwise keeping them unemployed during normal stream discharges. This study has been used to review sustainable flood management using natural and structural techniques in the Wharf River catchment in the UK, reviewing the existing research/ flood management schemes giving the pictorial coverage. The study suggests that natural flood management techniques have restricted application parameters and must be augmented by engineering structures to achieve effective flood management against heavy flooding. Low CO2 embodied greener infrastructure structural materials containing supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) can be a beneficial option for an environmentally friendly flood management strategy.
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Tymoshchuk, Oleksandr. "MEDITERRANEAN TOURISM IN AN UNPREDICTABLE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT." Business Navigator, 2024. https://doi.org/10.32782/business-navigator.77-52.
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The article has tracked the globalization trends in the development of the world economy, which have contributed to the formation of low new phenomena and processes in the tourism sector: in the first place, the cause of the global market of tourist services, in another way, The intensity of integration processes between enterprises and organizations in the tourism sector of the Mediterranean region has increased, thirdly, due to the increased use of transborder movement of essential goods and goods goods of the service sector, fourthly, new information and telecommunication technologies are increasingly being used to provide tourism services, fifthly, the most dynamic sector of industry has finally become international tourism near the Mediterranean Sea. It is stated that the need to formulate a new approach to the Mediterranean tourism industry is due to changes in the external and internal environment associated with the emergence of new features and channels communication, the development of new formats of interaction, the change of survivors in post-pandemic minds. It is emphasized that the tourism sector not only makes a significant contribution to the GDP of the region, but also plays an important role in securing employment opportunities, short-term poverty, increased income sharing, creation of additional income for goods and services, securing additional income and foreign exchange reserves for the governments of the Mediterranean coast. It is shown that the Mediterranean region has become one of the leading tourist regions in the world, accounting for one third of world tourism expenditures and half of international tourist arrivals. It has been reported that tourism services are becoming more sensitive to the influx of risks, a typical example of which is the global spread of the new coronavirus (COVID-19), which has negatively impacted international prices. At the same time, the extremely global tourism growth that positioned the Mediterranean as a strategic region in the pre-pandemic period is facing low expectations and demand, which threaten to reconsider its functioning in the future.
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Michael, Matthew, Nathan Chiroma, and Hauwa’u Evelyn Yusuf. "Health and Integrative Wellness: Mapping Wellness and Its Cultural Psychology in Contemporary Africa." International Bulletin of Mission Research, November 25, 2020, 239693932096800. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2396939320968005.
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The present work probes the ethnocultural psychology of African people in the creative negotiations of wellness across healing spaces. Using data drawn from ethnographic method, the research engages the cultural dynamics in the emerging ethnomedical conversations among 250 sick clients of African healing shrines, over 50 contemporary practitioners of African healing shrines, 40 biomedical doctors and nurses, and 40 church workers/Christian healers in Nigeria and Ghana. The findings of this research suggest that there are dialogic paths of ecumenical interaction, active routes of referral systems, and social contours of transborder spiritualities across contemporary African healing spaces.