The Regionalization of French Policies and Understanding Borders
Résumé
Borders and borderland studies scholars are increasingly engaged in a debate on the possibility
of a border model, or models, and of a border theory, or theories. The seeds of Dr. Brunet-
Jailly's arguments are grounded in a variety of discussions and in the works of border
scholars from a variety of social science disciplines. His contention, which differs from previous
published works, is that the border and borderland region literatures suggest three fundamental
foci of discussion that point to the competing roles of (1) market forces and trade flows, (2) policy activities of multiple levels of governments on adjacent borders, and (3) the specific civic and political culture of borderland communities, in understanding border agency and structure.
of a border model, or models, and of a border theory, or theories. The seeds of Dr. Brunet-
Jailly's arguments are grounded in a variety of discussions and in the works of border
scholars from a variety of social science disciplines. His contention, which differs from previous
published works, is that the border and borderland region literatures suggest three fundamental
foci of discussion that point to the competing roles of (1) market forces and trade flows, (2) policy activities of multiple levels of governments on adjacent borders, and (3) the specific civic and political culture of borderland communities, in understanding border agency and structure.
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