Papers by Elisabetta Elena Beatrice Nadalutti
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2020
Is there a ethical dimension in cross-border cooperation? Although EU border scholars and practit... more Is there a ethical dimension in cross-border cooperation? Although EU border scholars and practitioners highlight how important is to consider the normative dimension of cross-border cooperation for its successful management, the ethical dimension has been instead so far neglected and understudied because of the lack of an appropriate methodological and theoretical background. Thus, I aim to fill this scholarly and policy-making gap by addressing this main question and by proposing an alternative ethical-humanist approach to cross-border cooperation. It is argued that the cross-border governance ethical code elaborated here is the necessary lynchpin to promote and strengthen integration and cohesion through cross-border cooperation within the EU. The outcome of this analysis is an alternative modern cross-border cooperation roadmap that promotes social conditions through which human beings as well as their natural environment can harmoniously develop through the fulfilment of specific ethical values.
JCMS, 2020
Is there a ethical dimension in cross-border cooperation? Although EU border scholars and practit... more Is there a ethical dimension in cross-border cooperation? Although EU border scholars and practitioners highlight how important is to consider the normative dimension of cross-border cooperation for its successful management, the ethical dimension has been instead so far neglected and understudied because of the lack of an appropriate methodological and theoretical background. Thus, I aim to fill this scholarly and policy-making gap by addressing this main question and by proposing an alternative ethical-humanist approach to cross-border cooperation. It is argued that the cross-border governance ethical code elaborated here is the necessary lynchpin to promote and strengthen integration and cohesion through cross-border cooperation within the EU. The outcome of this analysis is an alternative modern cross-border cooperation roadmap that promotes social conditions through which human beings as well as their natural environment can harmoniously develop through the fulfilment of specific ethical values.
Journal of Common Market Studies, 2020
Is there a ethical dimension in cross-border cooperation? Although EU border scholars and practit... more Is there a ethical dimension in cross-border cooperation? Although EU border scholars and practitioners
highlight how important is to consider the normative dimension of cross-border cooperation
for its successful management, the ethical dimension has been instead so far neglected and
understudied because of the lack of an appropriate methodological and theoretical background.
Thus, I aim to fill this scholarly and policy-making gap by addressing this main question and by
proposing an alternative ethical-humanist approach to cross-border cooperation. It is argued that
the cross-border governance ethical code elaborated here is the necessary lynchpin to promote
and strengthen integration and cohesion through cross-border cooperation within the EU. The outcome
of this analysis is an alternative modern cross-border cooperation roadmap that promotes social
conditions through which human beings as well as their natural environment can harmoniously
develop through the fulfilment of specific ethical values.
This article addresses the importance of understanding the ethical values that underpin cross-bor... more This article addresses the importance of understanding the ethical values that underpin cross-border cooperation (CBC). This is done by elaborating a theoretical framework that focuses on the ethical dimension of CBC. A clear distinction is drawn between an ethical and a normative dimension of CBC. The article argues that European CBC policies lack a defi ned conceptualization of ethical, humanistic, and value-laden bases. By considering three ethical values-rootedness, empathy, and justiceunderpinning European governance, this research fi nds that the operationalization of these values helps to overcome a consumeristic approach, according to which people are passive consumers of CBC. The analysis shows why and how the operationalization of these key ethical values develops a cross-border community where people feel responsible for the territory perceived as a "common good."
The research puzzle of this article is to understand and explain the process of Iskandar-Malaysia... more The research puzzle of this article is to understand and explain the process of Iskandar-Malaysia region building. By doing that the article contributes to the debate around how regions emerge and to what extent states have to adapt to, cooperate with, and compete with them. Within the framework of regulatory regionalism and multi-level gover-nance, the paper aims to address one main question: how and to what extent interactions between state and non-state actors that contribute to produce new (cross-border) regional forms may politically and economically reconfigure states' relations. This is the first study on Iskandar-Malaysia that focuses attention on the sub-national border governance that is shaped by the interaction between Singaporean,
Is there an ‘ethical code’ of values that underpins cross-border cooperation activities? By focus... more Is there an ‘ethical code’ of values that underpins cross-border cooperation activities? By focusing on people as
‘agents’, the article argues that citizens and individuals in their integral development have been neglected so far
when the development of cross-border spaces is scrutinized. This study aims to provide an alternative theoretical framework through which cross-border
activities can be analysed and operationalized. This is done by synergically reading Benedict XVI’s ‘Caritas in Veritate’ and Sen’s ‘Development as Freedom'. It is suggested that the ethical dimension of cross-border
cooperation activities needs to be scrutinized on the ground that cross-border spaces are neither ethically neutral, nor inherently inhuman and opposed to
society. They are instead part and parcel of human activities and must be structured and governed in an ethical manner. It follows that ethical values
are the means of cohesion in cross-border zones. Without including them in the analysis, real cohesion cannot be achieve.
Geopolitics, Apr 21, 2015
Asia Europe Journal, 2014
ABSTRACT This article aims to offer a theoretical background on the meaning of “governance” and “... more 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.
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2013
ABSTRACT Through the analysis of Regulation 1082/2006 (also known as ‘The European Grouping of Te... more ABSTRACT Through the analysis of Regulation 1082/2006 (also known as ‘The European Grouping of Territorial Co-operation’), which enables regional and local authorities from different European Union (EU) countries to set up co-operation groupings as legal entities for projects of cross-border and trans-European significance, this article aims to assess whether the daily politics of the EU is still state driven in a zero-sum game, and conversely, whether states and state representatives are no longer the only interface between the sub-national and supranational levels and the operation of power across the various levels of governance on a local/national/supranational level in a non-zero-sum game. The article will show that a type of ‘multi-level governance’ is emerging in cross-border regions in which cross-border activities are empowering the regional/local level (sub-national level), permitting it to circumvent/supersede the national level through a process of negotiation and ‘alliances’. Furthermore, it will be highlighted that Regulation 1082/2006 is a clear example of multi-level governance in practice.
This article applies Simone Weil’s philosophical concept of ‘uprootedness’
and the ‘14 needs of t... more This article applies Simone Weil’s philosophical concept of ‘uprootedness’
and the ‘14 needs of the soul’, set out in her 1943 book
‘The Need for Roots’, to the empirical case study of the border
‘Italy-Slovenia’ considered within Programme 2007–2013. A
multi-dimensional qualitative approach that relies on an extensive
literature, consultation of primary sources and semi-structured
interviews carried out between October 2013 and February 2014
has been adopted.
The article questions why does cross-border-cooperation often
fail to develop an ‘integrated’ border territory and a cohesive
‘moral’ community? Conversely, why does social fragmentation
emerge from cross-border-cooperation? It is argued that while the
EU (Commission) has focused on initiatives and projects in order
to achieve regional, economic border integration, it has instead
failed to develop an ‘ethical framework’ for promoting a ‘rooted’
integrated borderland and a cohesive moral community.
This article aims to generate new thinking through application of the concept of trans-border gov... more This article aims to generate new thinking through application of the concept of trans-border governance to Southeast-Asia within the framework of new regionalism theory in order to fill some gaps in trans-border governance theory. In doing so, it will first elucidate in more detail what actors are involved in
trans-border cooperation activities, how their responsibilities, jurisdictions and relative powers can be or have been altered by the interaction and whether transborder cooperation can be used as a tool for further ‘integration’ or conversely whether it can enhance, as a counter effect, ‘disintegration’. In examining the (economic and political) power relations developed within and between different levels of governments and relevant economic and political stakeholders in ‘growth triangles’, the author aims to clarify the impact of these elements on trans-border governance.
The paper analyses the implications of cross-border activities on patterns of integration and gov... more The paper analyses the implications of cross-border activities on patterns of integration and governance in cross-border-regions following the implementation of EU crossborder co-operation programmes and Regulation 1082/2006 (i.e. European Grouping of Territorial Co-operation). It focuses on cross-border governance between Italy and Slovenia. It investigates the impact on the governance of the border by emerging and strengthening regional actors. First, it offers a brief theoretical background on the meaning of 'border' and 'cross-border governance' within the EU. Second, it investigates whether a type of transnational governance is emerging in cross-border regions, in which cross-border activities are empowering the regional-local level and permitting it to circumvent/supersede the national level. It will be shown that EU cross-border co-operation programmes are transforming the operation of power across the various levels of governance on a local/national/supranational level.
Through the analysis of Regulation 1082/2006 (also known as 'The European Grouping of Territorial... more Through the analysis of Regulation 1082/2006 (also known as 'The European Grouping of Territorial Co-operation'), which enables regional and local authorities from different European Union (EU) countries to set up co-operation groupings as legal entities for projects of cross-border and trans-European significance, this article aims to assess whether the daily politics of the EU is still state driven in a zero-sum game, and conversely, whether states and state representatives are no longer the only interface between the sub-national and supranational levels and the operation of power across the various levels of governance on a local/national/supranational level in a nonzero-sum game. The article will show that a type of 'multi-level governance' is emerging in cross-border regions in which cross-border activities are empowering the regional/local level (sub-national level), permitting it to circumvent/supersede the national level through a process of negotiation and 'alliances'. Furthermore, it will be highlighted that Regulation 1082/2006 is a clear example of multi-level governance in practice.
The 1990s witnessed a strong debate around the emergence of a new kind of citizenship in Europe. ... more The 1990s witnessed a strong debate around the emergence of a new kind of citizenship in Europe. This article analyses the ways in which identity and citizenship are being reshaped in cross-border areas following the implementation of European Union Cross Border Cooperation (CBC) programmes, with reference to the Upper Adriatic area. First, it offers a brief theoretical background on citizenship. Second, it investigates how different cross-border grass-roots stakeholders relate to each other in the process of implementing CBC projects and how, through their interaction, construct new meanings, interests and values and revisit their identities. It concludes by arguing that the constant interaction between societal and political cross-border actors at the local elite level is leading to greater mutual understanding, long-term transnational initiatives and an increasing emphasis on shared interests and values.
The 1990s witnessed a strong debate around the emergence of a new kind of citizenship in Europe. ... more The 1990s witnessed a strong debate around the emergence of a new kind of citizenship in Europe. This article analyses the ways in which identity and citizenship are being reshaped in cross-border areas following the implementation of European Union Cross Border Cooperation (CBC) programmes, with reference to the Upper Adriatic area. First, it offers a brief theoretical background on citizenship. Second, it investigates how different cross-border grass-roots stakeholders relate to each other in the process of implementing CBC projects and how, through their interaction, construct new meanings, interests and values and revisit their identities. It concludes by arguing that the constant interaction between societal and political cross-border actors at the local elite level is leading to greater mutual understanding, long-term transnational initiatives and an increasing emphasis on shared interests and values.
This article provides an analysis of governance in cross-border-regions following the implementat... more This article provides an analysis of governance in cross-border-regions following the implementation of EU CBC programmes, with reference to the border between Italy and Slovenia. First, it offers a brief theoretical background on governance. Second, it investigates whether a transnational type of governance is emerging in CBRs where the regional-local level is being empowered by cross-border activities and is thus able to circumvent/supersede the national level. Or conversely, states are still leading actors in these activities and real interlocutors with the EU level. It concludes by arguing that the EU CBC programmes are transforming the operation of power across the various levels of governance on a local, national and supranational level. The empirical research collected here points to two key developments. On the one hand there is evidence of an empowering of local agents in the case of strong autonomous regions. Conversely, on the other hand there is a strengthening of the national level in the case of small unitary states. Furthermore, CBC programmes appear to act as engines which have the potential to blur the internal distinction between a sovereign nation state and its regional level.
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Papers by Elisabetta Elena Beatrice Nadalutti
highlight how important is to consider the normative dimension of cross-border cooperation
for its successful management, the ethical dimension has been instead so far neglected and
understudied because of the lack of an appropriate methodological and theoretical background.
Thus, I aim to fill this scholarly and policy-making gap by addressing this main question and by
proposing an alternative ethical-humanist approach to cross-border cooperation. It is argued that
the cross-border governance ethical code elaborated here is the necessary lynchpin to promote
and strengthen integration and cohesion through cross-border cooperation within the EU. The outcome
of this analysis is an alternative modern cross-border cooperation roadmap that promotes social
conditions through which human beings as well as their natural environment can harmoniously
develop through the fulfilment of specific ethical values.
‘agents’, the article argues that citizens and individuals in their integral development have been neglected so far
when the development of cross-border spaces is scrutinized. This study aims to provide an alternative theoretical framework through which cross-border
activities can be analysed and operationalized. This is done by synergically reading Benedict XVI’s ‘Caritas in Veritate’ and Sen’s ‘Development as Freedom'. It is suggested that the ethical dimension of cross-border
cooperation activities needs to be scrutinized on the ground that cross-border spaces are neither ethically neutral, nor inherently inhuman and opposed to
society. They are instead part and parcel of human activities and must be structured and governed in an ethical manner. It follows that ethical values
are the means of cohesion in cross-border zones. Without including them in the analysis, real cohesion cannot be achieve.
and the ‘14 needs of the soul’, set out in her 1943 book
‘The Need for Roots’, to the empirical case study of the border
‘Italy-Slovenia’ considered within Programme 2007–2013. A
multi-dimensional qualitative approach that relies on an extensive
literature, consultation of primary sources and semi-structured
interviews carried out between October 2013 and February 2014
has been adopted.
The article questions why does cross-border-cooperation often
fail to develop an ‘integrated’ border territory and a cohesive
‘moral’ community? Conversely, why does social fragmentation
emerge from cross-border-cooperation? It is argued that while the
EU (Commission) has focused on initiatives and projects in order
to achieve regional, economic border integration, it has instead
failed to develop an ‘ethical framework’ for promoting a ‘rooted’
integrated borderland and a cohesive moral community.
trans-border cooperation activities, how their responsibilities, jurisdictions and relative powers can be or have been altered by the interaction and whether transborder cooperation can be used as a tool for further ‘integration’ or conversely whether it can enhance, as a counter effect, ‘disintegration’. In examining the (economic and political) power relations developed within and between different levels of governments and relevant economic and political stakeholders in ‘growth triangles’, the author aims to clarify the impact of these elements on trans-border governance.
highlight how important is to consider the normative dimension of cross-border cooperation
for its successful management, the ethical dimension has been instead so far neglected and
understudied because of the lack of an appropriate methodological and theoretical background.
Thus, I aim to fill this scholarly and policy-making gap by addressing this main question and by
proposing an alternative ethical-humanist approach to cross-border cooperation. It is argued that
the cross-border governance ethical code elaborated here is the necessary lynchpin to promote
and strengthen integration and cohesion through cross-border cooperation within the EU. The outcome
of this analysis is an alternative modern cross-border cooperation roadmap that promotes social
conditions through which human beings as well as their natural environment can harmoniously
develop through the fulfilment of specific ethical values.
‘agents’, the article argues that citizens and individuals in their integral development have been neglected so far
when the development of cross-border spaces is scrutinized. This study aims to provide an alternative theoretical framework through which cross-border
activities can be analysed and operationalized. This is done by synergically reading Benedict XVI’s ‘Caritas in Veritate’ and Sen’s ‘Development as Freedom'. It is suggested that the ethical dimension of cross-border
cooperation activities needs to be scrutinized on the ground that cross-border spaces are neither ethically neutral, nor inherently inhuman and opposed to
society. They are instead part and parcel of human activities and must be structured and governed in an ethical manner. It follows that ethical values
are the means of cohesion in cross-border zones. Without including them in the analysis, real cohesion cannot be achieve.
and the ‘14 needs of the soul’, set out in her 1943 book
‘The Need for Roots’, to the empirical case study of the border
‘Italy-Slovenia’ considered within Programme 2007–2013. A
multi-dimensional qualitative approach that relies on an extensive
literature, consultation of primary sources and semi-structured
interviews carried out between October 2013 and February 2014
has been adopted.
The article questions why does cross-border-cooperation often
fail to develop an ‘integrated’ border territory and a cohesive
‘moral’ community? Conversely, why does social fragmentation
emerge from cross-border-cooperation? It is argued that while the
EU (Commission) has focused on initiatives and projects in order
to achieve regional, economic border integration, it has instead
failed to develop an ‘ethical framework’ for promoting a ‘rooted’
integrated borderland and a cohesive moral community.
trans-border cooperation activities, how their responsibilities, jurisdictions and relative powers can be or have been altered by the interaction and whether transborder cooperation can be used as a tool for further ‘integration’ or conversely whether it can enhance, as a counter effect, ‘disintegration’. In examining the (economic and political) power relations developed within and between different levels of governments and relevant economic and political stakeholders in ‘growth triangles’, the author aims to clarify the impact of these elements on trans-border governance.
182 pages I 2018 - Routledge Hardback: ISBN 978-1-138-71907-1
This book explores the nature of regions and how they function, particularly at the local and micro-level. Whilst recent years have seen a resurgence in debates around the roles which regions can play in development, the focus has tended to be on 'macro' regional institutions such as the EU, ASEAN, ECOWAS or MERCOSUR. In contrast, this book offers a nuanced analysis of the important field of sub-regionalism and sub-national cross-border cooperation.
Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation takes a fresh look at both theoretical and empirical approaches to ‘region-making’ through cooperation activities at the micro-level across national borders in Europe, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. The book aims to explore the role that institutional dynamics play at the micro-level in shaping local and global ties, investigate what the formal and informal integration factors are that bolster regionalism and regionalization processes, and to clarify to what extent, and under what conditions, cooperation at the micro-level can be instrumental to solving common problems.