Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

What kind of governance does emerge in EU cross-border regions and Southeast Asia growth triangles? Italy-Slovenia and Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore border zones revisited

  • Original Paper
  • Published:
Asia Europe Journal Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

This article aims to offer a theoretical background on the meaning of “governance” and “cross-border cooperation” in the European Union (EU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Looking at the European Union cross-border regions and Association of South East Asian Nations growth triangles, this article seeks to understand firstly what changes (if any) cross-border cooperation has occasioned in the state; secondly, whether a kind of “border governance”, that is multi-level, is emerging in cross-border areas. It will be argued that cross-border cooperation activities may contribute to transform the operation of power across the various levels of governance on a local/national/supranational level and a “new mode” of governance that is “multi-layered” can emerge from this scenario. Accordingly, the state can be both strengthened and weakened by cross-border cooperation activities. Moreover, the change that is occurring within the concept of governance cannot be fully grasped without considering the emergence and importance of networks, the impact that cross-border movements and relationships have on the livelihoods and everyday trades of the local border communities.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Abonyi G (2008) Knitting together Asia: East Asian economic integration and its implications http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/uploadedFiles/exed/sites/asiapolicy/Knitting%20Together%20Asia%20-%20Abonyi(1).pdf. Accessed 28 Aug 2013

  • Abonyi G (2012) The emerging ASEAN economic community (AEC 2015) and the challenges of Innovation micro view (Part 2). Asia Policy Briefs, pp 1–10

  • Allen D (2005) Cohesion and structural funds. In: Wallace H, Wallace W, Pollack M (eds) Policy making in the European Union. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 213–241

    Google Scholar 

  • Andreou G, Bache I (2010) Europeanization and multi-level governance in Slovenia. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 10(1):29--43

  • Bache I (2008) Europeanization and multi-level governance: empirical findings and conceptual changes, ARENA Working Paper, no.16, July 2008. http://www.sv.uio.no/arena/english/research/publications/arena-publications/workingpapers/working-papers2008/wp08_16.pdf. Accessed 14 Sept 2013

  • Beeson M (2003) Sovereignty under siege: globalisation and the state in Southeast Asia. Third World Quarterly 24(2):357–374

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bilancia P, Palermo F, Porchia O (2010) The European fitness of Italian Regions. Perspective on Federalism 2(2):123–174

    Google Scholar 

  • Börzel TA, Risse T (2000) When Europe hits home: Europeanization and domestic change. European Integration online Papers 4(15). http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2000-015a.htm. Accessed 5 Oct 2013

  • Casella A, Weingast RW (1995) Elements of a theory of jurisdictional change. In: Eichengreen B, Frieden J, von Hagen J (eds) Politics and institutions in an integrated Europe. Springer Verlag, New York, pp 11–41

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Chayes A, Chayes A (1998) The new sovereignty: compliance with International regulatory agreements. Harvard University Press, Cambridge

    Google Scholar 

  • Church A, Reid P (1999) Cross border co-operation, institutionalization and political space across the English channel. Regional Studies 33:640–55

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Council of Europe (1980) European Outline Convention on Transfrontier Cooperation between Territorial Communities or Authorities. http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/Html/106.htm. Accessed 1 Sept 2013

  • Debrah Y, McGovern I, Budhwar P (2000) Complementarity or competition: the development of human resources in a Southeast Asian growth triangle: Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The International Journal of Human Resource Management 11(2):314–335

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dent C (2011) Sub-regional cooperation and developmental regionalism: The case of BIMP-EAGA. Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs 33(1):29–55

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dijkink G, Winnips C (2000) Alternative States: Regions and postfordism rhetoric on the Internet. GeoJournal 48(4):323–35

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gabriel A (2012) “Indonesia’s Batam Losing Its Economic Luster.” Straits Times 30 March. http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/archive/indonesias-batam-losing-its-economic-luster/. Accessed 14 Sept 2013

  • Grundy-Warr C (2002) Cross-border regionalism through a ‘Southeast Asian’ looking-glass. Space and Polity 6(2):215–225

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Grundy-Warr C, Peachey K, Perry M (1999) Fragmented integration in the Singapore-Indonesian border zone: Southeast Asia 'growth triangle' against the global economy. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 23:304–328

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gualini E (2003) Challenges to multi-level governance: contradictions and conflicts in the Europeanization of Italian regional policy. Journal of European Public Policy 10(4):616–636

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Halas M (2007) Development of cross-border cooperation and creation of Euroregions in the Slovak Republic. Moravian Geographical Reports 15(1):21–31

    Google Scholar 

  • Hall P (2008) Opportunities for democracy in cross-border regions? Lessons from the Øresund region. Regional Vienna Studies 42(3):423–435

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Harlow C, Rawlings R (2006) Promoting accountability in multi-level governance: a network approach. European Governance Papers (EUROGOV) No. C-06-02. http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/projekte/typo3/site/fileadmin/wp/abstract/C-06-02.htm. Accessed 28 Aug 2013

  • Held D, McGrew A, Goldblatt D, Perraton J (1999) Global Transformation. Stanford University Press, Stanford

    Google Scholar 

  • Hooghe L, Marks G (2001) Multi-level governance and European Integration. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham

  • Hooghe L, Marks G (2003) Unravelling the central State, but how? Types of multi-level governance. American Political Science Review 97(2):233–243

    Google Scholar 

  • Hooghe L, Marks G (2010) Types of multi-level governance. In: Enderlein H, Wälti S, Zürn M (eds) Handbook on Multi-Level Governance. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp 17–31

    Google Scholar 

  • Humphries AM (1995) Growth triangles of South East Asia. East Asia Analytical Unit. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra

    Google Scholar 

  • Hussain Z (2012) “Singapore, Indonesia to Boost Economic Links.” Straits Times Indonesia 14 March. http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/archive/singapore-indonesia-to-boost-economic-links/. Accessed 14 Sept 2013

  • Interact (2007) The European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument Cross-Border Cooperation EPNPI-CBC:Guidelines for Preparing CBC Programmes under the ENPI. http://www.interact-eu.net/downloads/299/Commission_Guidelines_Preparing_CBC_Programmes_Under_the_ENPI_11_2007.pdf. Accessed 28 Aug 2013

  • Jayasuriya K (2009) Regulatory regionalism in the Asia-Pacific: drivers, instruments and actors. Australian Journal of International Affairs 63(3):335–347

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jeffery C (2000) Sub-national mobilization and European integration: does it make any difference? Journal of Common Market Studies 38(1):1–23

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jessop B (2002) The political economy of scale. In: Perkmann M, Sum N-L (eds) Globalization, regionalization, and cross-border regions. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstok, pp 25–49

    Google Scholar 

  • Kepka J, Murphy A (2002) Euroregions in comparative perspective. In: Kaplan H, Häkli J (eds) Boundaries and places, European borderlands in geographical context. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, pp 51–69

    Google Scholar 

  • Knippenberg H (2004) The Maas-Rhine Euroregion: a laboratory for European integration? Geopolitics 9(3):608–626

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kumar S (1994) Beyond economic reality: new thoughts on the growth triangle. Southeast Asian Affairs, 1994 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore

  • Lindstrom N (2005) Europeanization and sub-national governance in Slovenia. Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops 2005, Granada, 15–19 April 2005

  • Moravscik A (1991) Preferences and power in the European community: a Liberal Intergovernmental Approach. Journal of Common Market Studies 31:473–524

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Palermo F (2007) The foreign policy of Italian regions: not much ado about something. International Spectator 42(2):197–207

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Palermo F, Woelk J (2003) From minority protection to a law of diversity? Reflections on the evolution of minority rights. European Yearbook of Minority Issues 3:5–13

    Google Scholar 

  • Perkmann M (2003) Cross-border regions in Europe: significance and drivers of regional cross-border co-operation. European Urban and Regional Studies 10(2):153–171

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Perkmann M, Sum NL (2002) Globalization, regionalization and cross border Regions: scales, discourses and governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Phelps NA (2004) Triangular diplomacy writ small: the political economy of the Indonesia–Malaysia–Singapore growth triangle. The Pacific Review 3(17):341–368

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rosenau J (1997) Along the domestic-Foreign frontier. Exploring governance in a turbulent world. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Schmitter P (2004) Neo-functionalism. In: Wiener A, Diez T (eds) European integration theory. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 45–74

    Google Scholar 

  • Skelcher C (2005) Jurisdictional integrity, polycentrism, and the design of democratic governance. Governance 18(1):89–111

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sparke M, Didaway J, Bunnell T, Grundy-Warr C (2004) Triangulating the borderless world: geographies of power in the Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore growth triangle. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 29(4):485–498

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tamminen T (2004) Cross-border cooperation in the Southern Balkans: local, national or European identity politics? Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 4(3):399–418

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tan Kok T (2013) “Work with neighbouring nations on win-win solutions.” Straits Times 19 February. http://www.straitstimes.com/premium/forum-letters/story/work-neighbouring-nations-win-win-solutions-20130219. Accessed 14 Sept 2013

  • Tang M, Thant M (1996) The Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand growth triangle: theory to practice. Asian Development Bank, Manila

  • Tong S, Chong C (2011) ASEAN economic growth triangles and implication for China. In: Li M, Kwa CG (eds) China-Asian sub-regional cooperation: progress, problems, and prospect. World Scientific, Singapore, pp 77–95

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Wibowo W (2011) “ASEAN Economic Community: Wishful thinking?” The Jakarta Post 22 November. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/11/22/asean-economic-community-wishful-thinking.html. Accessed 14 Sept 2013

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Université du Luxembourg, Walferdange, Luxembourg

    Elisabetta Nadalutti

Authors
  1. Elisabetta Nadalutti
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Elisabetta Nadalutti.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Nadalutti, E. What kind of governance does emerge in EU cross-border regions and Southeast Asia growth triangles? Italy-Slovenia and Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore border zones revisited. Asia Eur J 12, 365–382 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-014-0388-4

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-014-0388-4

Keywords

Search

Navigation