Agents and Structures in Cross-Border Governance

Bruno Dupeyron is a professor at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Regina.Andrea Noferini is research director at the Center for International Affairs at the Universitat de Barcelona and a professor in the Department of Political Science at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.Tony Payan is the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, and a professor of social sciences at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez.

• Introduction1. Cross-Border Governance: A Common Theoretical Framework and Comparative ApproachBruno Dupeyron, Andrea Noferini, and Tony PayanPart 1: Cross-Border Governance in North America: From Multipolar to Monocentric Governance2. ‘Getting It:’ Business NGOs and Political Actors Talk about the US-Mexico BorderKathleen Staudt and Pamela L. Cruz 3. The Structure of Cross-Border Governance on the US-Mexico BorderTony Payan 4. Incumbent and Challenger Stakeholders in the San Diego-Tijuana Border Region: Economics and MigrationEduardo Mendoza-Cota 5. Mexico’s "Drug War," the Energy Sector, and an Emerging Strategic Action FieldGuadalupe Correa-Cabrera6. Re-shaping Cross-Border Governance in the Pacific Northwest BorderlandsVictor Konrad7. Revisiting "Paradiplomacy" in the Quebec-US-States Cross-Border AreaBruno DupeyronPart 2: Cross-Border Governance in Europe: A Steady but Contested Multi-level Governance 8. Actors and Policy Outcomes in the Euroregion Pyrenees Mediterranean: From the Emergence to the Stabilization of the Field (1990–2018)Andrea Noferini 9. Cross-Border Islands Governance: A Field Analysis of the Italy-Malta Interreg ProgramFrancesco Camonita10. A Bird’s Eye-View of Cross-Border Governance Dynamics along the Pyrenees (France-Spain Border)  Matteo Berzi11. Cultural Policy within Euroregions: Dynamics of a Cross-Border Sectoral FieldThomas Perrin12. Galicia and the Region of North Portugal: An Experience of Cross-Border Cooperation in the Portugal-Spain Border Celso Cancela Outeda13. Cooperation and Cross-Border Conflicts in Cerdanya (Spain-France Border) in Early Twenty-First Century Environmental and Economic CrisesXavier Oliveras14. The Evolving Cross-Border Cooperation of Nouvelle Aquitaine–Euskadi–Navarre (Western Pyrenees Boundary): Multiple Actors and Aims of CooperationAntoni Durà-GuimeràConclusion15. Comparing Cross-Border Governance in North America and Europe: Conclusions Bruno Dupeyron, Andrea Noferini, and Tony Payan

“Agents and Structures in Cross-Border Governance offers a coherent and sound methodology with which to assess management of borders.”