And it brings cross-border political and legal complications.For Singapore, territorial expansion has been an essential part of economic growth.
Along these lines, scholars began to explore the strategic and internal-democratic implications of transnational resource flows, of state-sanctioned decentralized policy networks, of cross-border political identities, and of the Internet as an internal communication tool.
PERHAPS 2003 will be remembered in Canada's tourism industry in biblical terms, as a year of plagues: SARS, mad cow disease, raging forest fires in British Columbia's wilderness, a soaring Canadian dollar, a huge power failure in Ontario and cross-border political static over the United States-led invasion of Iraq, which was opposed by the Canadian government.
The Ulster Unionists, a Protestant party that is the province's largest and most powerful, have indicated that they will consider a report of no progress as cause to withdraw from their leadership positions in the Northern Ireland assembly and the new cross-border political structures with the Republic of Ireland.
· Bernard Crick's most recent book is Crossing Borders: Political Essays (Continuum).
A comparative lens discloses that, despite different sociodemographic profiles, Senegalese migrants living in the U.S. and in France exhibit a similarly high propensity to engage in cross-border political and economic activities.
Maybe the economy is easier to fix - although not necessarily in the eurozone, which still lacks the requisite cross-border political solidarity that would allow the excessive debt burden to be pooled, and its growth-deadening impact to be mitigated.
As progressive and conservative visions for the continent's economic future emerge, unprecedented levels of cross-border political co-operation are now also taking place.
Elsewhere, however, struggles over borders, political control, and resources convulsed the former Soviet Union, and the body count rivaled the horrors taking place in Yugoslavia.
Wu Wenzao pointed out in the Introduction to Border Politics that the term border contains "political border" and "cultural border", and the goal of ethnology is to promote border culture development and borderland-mainland cultural integration through the study of cultural borders (Wu, 1942).Since then, Chinese ethnology had been more involved in the research on border and ethnic minority issues.
