Borders and international relations: subnational administrations as protagonists of territorial governance

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Vitorino José Barros da
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Costa, Edgar Aparecido da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Conhecer (Fortaleza)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/revistaconhecer/article/view/8343
• topic: comitê de fronteira; concertação social; governo subnacional; sistemas policêntricos de governança; border committee; social concertation; subnational administration; polycentric governance systems; comité fronterizo; concertación social; gobierno subnacional; sistemas policéntricos de gobernanza; comité des frontières; concertation sociale; gouvernement sous-national; systèmes polycentriques de gouvernance

Managing bordering territories is a challenge for subnational administrations due to territorial discontinuity. Border zones consist of at least two geographic areas belonging to different countries. Many of the managing issues and difficulties are shared by neighbors, but not their solutions, which run up against jurisdictional constraints. The needs of bordering municipalities to be protagonists in coping with difficulties that exceed their geographical boundaries are increasingly observed. This article discusses the possibilities of territorial governance between territories located in border regions. To do that, we resorted to bibliographic research and experiences in Brazilian consulates abroad lived by one of the authors. It was found that there is already a literature pointing out the importance of subnational administrations’ participation in the paths taken by international politics, particularly. Bordering municipalities can and should stimulate cooperation initiatives and take advantage of existing instruments, such as border committees, to become spokespersons for local claims to national administrations.