#18 BIG Podcast - “History of cross-border cooperation in Europe since 1945” - With: Birte Wassenberg – Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Strasbourg, France;
04.17.2023 - By BIG
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The border reflects a division of the world into territorialized state, juridical and political orders that are spatially separated by territorial delimitations. Cross-border cooperation connects local and sub-national authorities, on both sides and across borders. In fact, this phenomenon challenges both the monopoly of external relations of the State, and the nature of the juridical limit of borders for subnational actions. This object of study is extremely complex, because we have a lot of terminologies, actors, tools, contexts, challenges, trends… The historical angle is the basis of the intelligibility. We will understand better this vast constellation with historian Birte Wassenberg.
Time Markers:
00:00 Our Guest today: Birte Wassenberg
01:37 Terminological diversity and complexity: "Transboundary" Cooperation or "Cross-Border" Cooperation?
04:13 The different historical phases in the evolution of cross-border cooperation in Europe
12:34 “Borders are scars of history”: Where does this phrase come from?
15:28 One of the pioneers of cooperation: Viktor von Malchus
17:58 The different actors involved in cross-border cooperation
21:55 Workings Communities or Euroregions? The degree of institutionalization is the criteria to distinguish the nature of cross-border organisms
28:16 How to define a cross-border region?
33:15 The main challenges facing the cross-border cooperation
42:09 The most dynamic borders in terms of cross-border cooperation
47:53 The evolution of French policy in terms of cross-border cooperation
53:36 The history and usefulness of European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC)
57:32 Towards an European administrative law for cross-border cooperation?
1:02:33 Effects of Multi-Level Governance on Cross-Border Cooperation?
1:08:45 Cross-Border Cooperation as Territorial Diplomacy
1:13:21 The most important factors for a good cross-border cooperation?
1:17:36 The effects of globalization in the field of international relations and the place of cross-border cooperation
1:19:52 The future and the next trends of cross-border cooperation?
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