Typologie des espaces-frontières à l'heure de la globalization

Abstract

This essay is a contribution to the theory of border effects, offering a synthetic vision in the form of a typology. It thematizes the changing nature of the role of borders and their spatial impact: from contiguous territories of traditional boundaries, moving to the functional areas of economic and political relationships now inserted into globalization. Following the illustration of the construction of the typological table and the concepts that are at the base, each case is briefly presented in there characteristics on the role of the border, its effects and possible governance of discontinuities.