By James W. Scott, 2016
This chapter relates CBC and the creation of cross-border regions to bordering by emphasizing their political character within the context of European integration. Discussion begins with a very general overview of the state of the debate in border studies and a specific focus on change and continuity in the framing of State territoriality. This is followed by a brief discussion of the bordering perspective as a means of interpreting the European Union’s role in configuring borders in a wider European context. What emerges in this discussion is that the EU is a border-making actor that reflects a number of different bordering logics. Among these logics we can include the creation of new post-national relational spaces, the consolidation of territorial development within the EU but also the creation of a highly selective border regime that regulates access to the Schengen Area.
