Globalization and international integration: New strategies of transborder regional development

Regional Development Dialogue

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 222-235

  Wong González, Pablo ^a  

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BORDER REGION; GLOBALIZATION; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL TRADE;

MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 17444446532     PISSN: 02506505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Niles Hansen, The Border Economy: Regional Development in the Southwest (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1981); Remigio Ratti and Shalom Reichman, "Spatial Effects of Borders: An Overview of Traditional and New Approaches to Border Region Development" in Peter Nijkamp, ed., Europe on the Move: Recent Development in European Communications and Transport Activity Research (Aldershot, UK: Avebury, 1993), pp. 115-37; and Michel Foucher, "Tipología de las fronteras contemporáneas" ("Typology of Contemporary Borderlands") in Philippe Bovin, coordinator, Las fronteras del istmo: fonteras y sociedades entre el sur de México y America Central (The Isthmus Borderlands: Borderlands and Societies between Southern Mexico and Central America) (Mexico City: Centre of Research and Superior Studies in Social Anthropology-French Centre for Mexican and Central American Studies, 1997), pp. 19-24.
2. Niles Hansen, The Border Economy: Regional Development in the Southwest (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1981); Remigio Ratti and Shalom Reichman, "Spatial Effects of Borders: An Overview of Traditional and New Approaches to Border Region Development" in Peter Nijkamp, ed., Europe on the Move: Recent Development in European Communications and Transport Activity Research (Aldershot, UK: Avebury, 1993), pp. 115-37; and Michel Foucher, "Tipología de las fronteras contemporáneas" ("Typology of Contemporary Borderlands") in Philippe Bovin, coordinator, Las fronteras del istmo: fonteras y sociedades entre el sur de México y America Central (The Isthmus Borderlands: Borderlands and Societies between Southern Mexico and Central America) (Mexico City: Centre of Research and Superior Studies in Social Anthropology-French Centre for Mexican and Central American Studies, 1997), pp. 19-24.
3. Niles Hansen, The Border Economy: Regional Development in the Southwest (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1981); Remigio Ratti and Shalom Reichman, "Spatial Effects of Borders: An Overview of Traditional and New Approaches to Border Region Development" in Peter Nijkamp, ed., Europe on the Move: Recent Development in European Communications and Transport Activity Research (Aldershot, UK: Avebury, 1993), pp. 115-37; and Michel Foucher, "Tipología de las fronteras contemporáneas" ("Typology of Contemporary Borderlands") in Philippe Bovin, coordinator, Las fronteras del istmo: fonteras y sociedades entre el sur de México y America Central (The Isthmus Borderlands: Borderlands and Societies between Southern Mexico and Central America) (Mexico City: Centre of Research and Superior Studies in Social Anthropology-French Centre for Mexican and Central American Studies, 1997), pp. 19-24.
4. Peter Nijkamp, "Border Regions and Infrastructure Networks in the European Integration," Environment and Planning C 11 (4:1993):431-46.
5. Philippe Bovin and Martine Dauzier, "Prólogo" ("Prologue") in Bovin, coordinator, Las fronteras del istmo.
6. Ratti and Reichman, "Spatial Effects of Borders," p. 125.
7. Pablo Wong-González, "Integración de América del norte: implicaciones para la competencia y competitividad internacional de regiones" ("Integration of North America: Implications for Competency and International Competitiveness of Regions") (Investigation Series; Doc. 97/17, Regional Policies and Planning Division, United Nations Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (UN/ILPES), Santiago de Chile, October 1997).
8. Kenichi Ohmae, "The Rise of the Region State," Foreign Affairs 72 (Spring 1993):78-87.
9. Sergio Boisier, "Postmodernismo territorial y globalización: regiones pivotales y regiones virtuales" ("Territorial Post-Modernism and Globalization: Pivotal Regions and Virtual Regions") (Essay Series, Doc. 93/19) (Santiago: UN/ILPES, 1993).
10. Niles Hansen, "European Transboundary Cooperation and Its Relevance to the United States-Mexico Borders," Journal of the American Institute of Planners 49 (Summer 1993).
11. John Friedmann and Rebeca Morales, "Planeación transfronteriza: un caso de 'provocación sofisticada'?" ("Transborder Planning: A Case of 'Sophisticated Provocation?"), Estudios Fronterizos, 3 (3):7-8.
12. A. Amin and N. Thrift, "Living in the Global" in A. Amin and N. Thrift, eds., Globalization, Institutions and Regional Development in Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994); Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996); Kenichi Ohmae, The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy (New York: Harper Perennial, 1991); and Nigel Harris, The End of the Third World: Newly Industrializing Countries and the Decline of an Ideology (London: Penguin, 1986).
13. A. Amin and N. Thrift, "Living in the Global" in A. Amin and N. Thrift, eds., Globalization, Institutions and Regional Development in Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994); Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996); Kenichi Ohmae, The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy (New York: Harper Perennial, 1991); and Nigel Harris, The End of the Third World: Newly Industrializing Countries and the Decline of an Ideology (London: Penguin, 1986).
14. A. Amin and N. Thrift, "Living in the Global" in A. Amin and N. Thrift, eds., Globalization, Institutions and Regional Development in Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994); Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996); Kenichi Ohmae, The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy (New York: Harper Perennial, 1991); and Nigel Harris, The End of the Third World: Newly Industrializing Countries and the Decline of an Ideology (London: Penguin, 1986).
15. A. Amin and N. Thrift, "Living in the Global" in A. Amin and N. Thrift, eds., Globalization, Institutions and Regional Development in Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994); Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996); Kenichi Ohmae, The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy (New York: Harper Perennial, 1991); and Nigel Harris, The End of the Third World: Newly Industrializing Countries and the Decline of an Ideology (London: Penguin, 1986).
16. Castells, The Rise of the Network Society.
17. Amin and Thrift, "Living in the Global."
18. Federico Bervejillo, "Territorios en la globalización: cambio global y estrategias de desarrollo territorial" ("Territories in Globalization: Global Change and Development Strategies") (Essay Series; Doc. 96/34, Regional Policies and Planning Division) (Santiago: UN/ILPES, 1996).
19. Alain Vanneph, "Frontera norte: de las redes a la región transfronteriza" ("Northern Borderland: From Networks to Transborder Region") in Bovin, coordinator, Las fronteras del istmo, pp. 29-30.
20. Larry Swanson, "Emerging Transnational Economic Regions in North America Under NAFTA" in Michael Hodges, ed., Proceedings of the Symposium on the Impact of NAFTA: Economies in Transition (London: London School of Economics and Political Science, 1994).
21. Ratti and Reichman, "Spatial Effects of Borders."
22. See Financial Times, "The Opening Caused a Division in Canada," reproduced in Excelsior (28 October 1995).
23. Juan Castaingts Teillery, "Quebec: Is It the Mirror of Mexico?" in Excelsior (28 October 1995).
24. See Alfredo Jalife, "From Quebec to Chiapas: Is It the Balkanization of the Continent?" in El Financiero (28 October 1995).
25. Pablo Wong-González, "La paradoja regional y regionalismos emergentes en Mexico: entre la globalizacion y el centralismo" ("The Regional Paradox and Emerging Regionalisms in Mexico: Between Globalization and Centralism") (Essay Series; Documento 97/36, Regional Policies and Planning Division) (Santiago de Chile: UN/ILPES, 1997).
26. Among the most important are: "Chihuahua: the First XXI Century Economy in Mexico" (1994); "Jalisco 2000: Facing New Realities" (1994); "Veracruz in Front of the New Century" (1995); and "Strategic Economic Development Vision of the Arizona-Sonora Region" (1995-1997).
27. Among the most important are: "Chihuahua: the First XXI Century Economy in Mexico" (1994); "Jalisco 2000: Facing New Realities" (1994); "Veracruz in Front of the New Century" (1995); and "Strategic Economic Development Vision of the Arizona-Sonora Region" (1995-1997).
28. Among the most important are: "Chihuahua: the First XXI Century Economy in Mexico" (1994); "Jalisco 2000: Facing New Realities" (1994); "Veracruz in Front of the New Century" (1995); and "Strategic Economic Development Vision of the Arizona-Sonora Region" (1995-1997).
29. Among the most important are: "Chihuahua: the First XXI Century Economy in Mexico" (1994); "Jalisco 2000: Facing New Realities" (1994); "Veracruz in Front of the New Century" (1995); and "Strategic Economic Development Vision of the Arizona-Sonora Region" (1995-1997).
30. Sylvie Jean, "NAFTA Makes the Grade," Bu$iness Mexico (April 1996).
31. Ohmae, "The Rise of the Region State."
32. Swanson, "Emerging Transnational Economic Regions."
33. Boisier, "Postmodernismo territorial y globalizacion."
34. Sergio Boisier, El difícil arte de hacer región: las regiones como actores territoriales del nuevo orden internacional; conceptos, problemas y métodos (The Difficult Art of Forming a Region: The Regions as Territorial Actors in the New International Order; Concepts, Problems and Methods) (Cusco: Centre of Andean Regional Studies Bartolome de las Casas, 1992).
35. For more information, see Vera Pavlakovich and M. Walder, eds., "Transnational Regional Economic Development - North America, Borderlands Economic Development" (Research Paper Series; 1996-1) (Tucson, AZ: Department of Community Affairs and Economic Development, University of Arizona, 1997).
36. 2 of the Primeria Alta in 1853, 24 percent of Arizona's present territory; see also under Nueva Vizcaya, before 1732; Sonora and Sinaloa, between 1732 and 1786; Intendencia de Arizpe, between 1786 and 1821; Estado de Occidente, 1824-1830; and the Estados de Sonora y Sinaloa, from 1831 to 1854.
37. Fernando Lozano, coordinator, Sonorenses en Arizona: proceso de formación de una región binacional (Sonorans in Arizona: The Creation Process of a Binational Region) (Tucson, AZ: Mexican American Studies and Research Center, University of Arizona, 1993).
38. It is complex in the sense that in the contemporary world, political borders, interregional linkages or regional "hinterlands" are becoming blurred or difficult to identify and measure. In the case of the Arizona-Sonora region, at least in functional terms, the state of Sinaloa plays an important role during the produce export season.
39. Carol Colombo and Colombo and Bonacci, coordinators, "Arizona Trade Corridor Study: Study Summary" (Tucson, AZ, 1993).
40. Tucson-Pima County Free Coordinating Council, "Tucson Metropolitan Intermodal Transfer Facilities Project, Pima County, Arizona" (Tucson, AZ, 1994); and Vera Pavlakovich, "Sensitivity of Arizona's Manufacturing Industries to the Peso Devaluation" (Borderlands Regional Economic Perspectives, Research Paper Series; 1995-1) (Tucson, AZ: Department of Community Affairs and Economic Development, University of Arizona, 1997).
41. Tucson-Pima County Free Coordinating Council, "Tucson Metropolitan Intermodal Transfer Facilities Project, Pima County, Arizona" (Tucson, AZ, 1994); and Vera Pavlakovich, "Sensitivity of Arizona's Manufacturing Industries to the Peso Devaluation" (Borderlands Regional Economic Perspectives, Research Paper Series; 1995-1) (Tucson, AZ: Department of Community Affairs and Economic Development, University of Arizona, 1997).
42. Pavlakovich, "Sensitivity of Arizona's Manufacturing Industries to the Peso Devaluation."
43. Mexican Secretariat of Commerce and Industrial Promotion (SECOFI), Directorio de la industria maquiladora de exportación (Directory of the Export Maquila Industry) (Mexico City) (various issues).
44. Vera Pavlakovich, "Fresh Produce Industry in Nogales, Arizona: Impacts of a Transborder Production Complex on the Economy of Arizona" (Tucson, AZ: Department of Community Affairs and Economic Development, University of Arizona, 1997); and Pablo Wong-González, R. Tronstad, and S. Aradhyula, Los agronegocios en la región Sonora-Arizona: análisis y recomendaciones para su desarrollo (Agribusiness in the Sonora-Arizona Region: Analysis and Recommendations for Development) (Tucson, AZ: Research Centre for Food and Development, University of Arizona, 1997).
45. Vera Pavlakovich, "Fresh Produce Industry in Nogales, Arizona: Impacts of a Transborder Production Complex on the Economy of Arizona" (Tucson, AZ: Department of Community Affairs and Economic Development, University of Arizona, 1997); and Pablo Wong-González, R. Tronstad, and S. Aradhyula, Los agronegocios en la región Sonora-Arizona: análisis y recomendaciones para su desarrollo (Agribusiness in the Sonora-Arizona Region: Analysis and Recommendations for Development) (Tucson, AZ: Research Centre for Food and Development, University of Arizona, 1997).
46. The commissions are composed of a variety of members, including staff of governmental and nongovernmental agencies, business, professionals, and academic institutions. They share a common interest in strengthening the relationships between the two states.
47. Stanford Research Institute (SRI) International, Arizona-Sonora Complementarity: A Gateway between the United States and Mexico (Menlo Park, CA: Center for Economic Competitiveness, 1992).
48. Bovin and Dauzier, "Prológo."
49. See the conclusions of the Regionalization and Economic Change Workshop-Seminar, "A Comparative Vision in Latin America," Organization of the American States (OAS), Central Office of Coordination and Planning (CORDIPLAN) and Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Región Centro Occidental de Venezuela, or FUDECO (Foundation for the Development of the Occidental Central Region in Venezuela) held in Barquisimeto Estado Lara, Venezuela, 18-20 October 1994.
50. Enrique Iglesias, "From Rhetoric to Reality," The Development of Latin America 1996 (Johannesburg: Asociacio"n Latinoamerica de Libre Comercio (ALADI-LATAG), Sterling Publications, 1996), pp. 27-9.
51. Sergio Boisier, "Notas en torno al desarrollo de regiones fronterizas en América Latina" ("Notes on the Development of Border Regions in Latin America") (Doc. CPRD/C-79, DPPR) (Santiago: UN/ILPES, 1986). Brooks, Laura, "Seeing Green: Mexican Tomato Exports Help Arizona Economy," Latin Trade (July 1997): 28-9.
52. Sergio Boisier, "Notas en torno al desarrollo de regiones fronterizas en América Latina" ("Notes on the Development of Border Regions in Latin America") (Doc. CPRD/C-79, DPPR) (Santiago: UN/ILPES, 1986). Brooks, Laura, "Seeing Green: Mexican Tomato Exports Help Arizona Economy," Latin Trade (July 1997): 28-9.