World stage: new opportunities and problems. Boundary permeability in perspective / Gerald Blake ; Information geopolitics: blurring the lines of sovereignty / Thomas M. Edwards ; Law, sovereignty, and transnationalism: delivering social goods using a functional approach to borders / Robert Adamson -- Regionalism and subregionalism in Europe. European borders in transition: the internal and external frontiers of the European Union / Eberhard Bort ; Transnational regionalism, strategic geopolitics, and European integration: the case of the Baltic Sea region / James Wesley Scott -- Emerging perspective. Transfrontier regionalism: the European Union perspective on postcolonial Africa, with special reference to Borgu / Anthony I. Asiwaju ; Trans-maritime boundary cooperation in southeast Asia: eroding or enhancing the importance of international boundaries? / Clive Schofield -- Redefining boundaries in the Americas. Neoliberal Caribbean integration: the role of the ACS in restructuring borderlines / Heather Nicol ; Redefining the nature and functions of boundaries: a South American perspective / Roy Bradshaw -- A borderless North America?. Transportation and competitiveness in North America: the Cascadian and San Diego-Tijuana border regions / Theodore H. Cohn ; Conflicting transborder visions and agendas: economic and environmental Cascadians / Donald K. Alper ; Cascadian adventures: shared visions, strategic alliances, and ingrained barriers in a transborder region / Alan F.J. Artibise ; NAFTA and transportation corridor improvement in Western North America: restructuring for the twenty-first century / Daniel E. Turbeville III and Susan L. Bradbury -- Borders as metaphors. Permeable borders and boundaries in a globalizing world: feeling at home amidst global poverty / Mathew Coleman ; Technopoles and development in a 'borderless' world: boundaries erased, boundaries constructed / Steven Jackson -- Rethinking borders: lines, spaces, and continua. Complex emergency response planning and coordination: potential GIS applications / William B. Wood ; Good neighbour diplomacy revisited / Alan K. Henrikson -- Conclusions. Towards a geopolitics of life and living: where boundaries still matter / Stanley D. Brunn ... [et al.] ; From the international to the local in the study and representation of boundaries: theoretical and methodological comments / David Newman.