Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Part I : Introduction -- 1. Globalization, Regionalization and Cross-Border -- Regions: Scales, Discourses and Governance -- Markus Perkmann and Ngai-Ling Sum 3 -- Part II : Theoretical Approaches -- 2. The Political Economy of Scale -- Bob Jessop 25 -- 3. Globalization, Regionalization and Cross-Border Modes of Growth in East Asia: the (Re)Constitution of Time-Space Governance -- Ngai-Ling Sum 50 -- 4. Political Frontier Regimes: Towards Cross-Border Governance? -- Jean-Philippe Leresche and Guy Saez 77 -- Part III : European Cross-Border Cooperation -- 5. Euroregions: Institutional Entrepreneurship in the European Union -- Markus Perkmann 103 -- 6. Cross-Border Cooperation and Regional Development in the German-Polish Border Area -- Stefan Kritke 125 -- Part IV : Growth Triangles in East Asia -- 7. Rearticulation of Spatial Scales and Temporal Horizons of a Cross-Border Mode of Growth: the (Re)Making of 'Greater China' -- Ngai-Ling Sum 151 -- 8. Japan Sea Regionalism: the Role of Sub-national Authorities -- David Arase 176 -- Part V : Cross-Border Cooperation in North America -- 9. On the Political Economy of Cross-Border Regionalism: Regional Development and -- Cooperation on the US-Mexican Border -- James Wesley Scott 191 -- 10. Not a State, But More than a State of Mind: Cascading Cascadias and the Geoeconomics of Cross-Border Regionalism -- Matthew Sparke 212 -- Part VI : Cross-Border Cooperation in Africa -- 11. The Construction of Cross-Border Regions in Southern Africa: the Case of the Maputo Corridor -- Irae Baptista Lundin and Fredrik Soderbaum 241.