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Tel: +49 (0)203 29861-135
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E-mail: nadalutti@spam protectgcr21.uni-due.de

Within the EU-ASEAN cross-border regionalism: cooperation with(out) an ethical cross-border governance? A comparative perspective analysis

The project will elaborate a comparative (sub)regional integration framework in an effort to compare and understand sub-regional integration processes through the analysis of governance at the micro-level. Thus, this research focuses on micro border-regions in the EU and ASEAN regional areas since border regions provide a rich empirical and policy context for understanding regional integration through a process of deterritorialisation-reterritorialisation of capital and politics.

The main argument of the project is the need to focus on ‘ethical’ issues in order to promote ‘good’ governance and to answer the general question of whether and to what extent ‘governance’ translates into development understood in the present research as justice and fulfilment of obligations.

Thus this research attempts to infuse regional integration theories with ethical considerations from the notion of ‘obligation’ as conceptualized by the philosopher S. Weil. This research starts from the assumption that integration through governance is not a merely engine for wealth creation, but is the process that provides the means for pursuing justice through equal redistribution, and develops authentically human social relationships of solidarity, trust and reciprocity.

Aims of the project:

• to compare regional integration modes that appear to be disconnected and diverse in order to verify whether they can be manifestation of a more general and relatively simple structure and produce similar outcomes;
• to study governance worldwide through border regions;
• to elaborate a 'governance regional integration’ model infused with ethics to build an analytical-interpretive framework for issues of border regions development.

• Co-authored article with professor Harlan Koff on the relationship between democracy and development in borders areas of Colombia, Mexico, South Africa and Indonesia as part of 'Borders in Globalization' project led by Professor Emmanuel Brunet-Jaily (University of Victoria)
• 'Behind the mask of cross-national sustainable development normativeness: what a comparative EU and ASEAN analysis reveals', to be submitted to the Journal of European Public Policy
• 'Do Human Rights exist as Obligations? The Case of the Orang Asli Seletar', to be submitted to The International Journal of Human Rights

Nadalutti, Elisabetta (ed.) (2015): The Effects of Europeanization on the Integration Process in the Upper Adriatic Region, Dordrecht: Springer.

Nadalutti, Elisabetta (2015): ‘Do economic special zones promote integration through migration flows? The rise of the Iskandar Region: the Shenzhen of Singapore’, in Talani, S., and McMahon, S. (eds.): Handbook of International Political Economy of Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing: London.

Nadalutti, Elisabetta (2015): 'The rise of trans-border regions in Southeast Asia: Behind the dynamics of informal and formal integration processes in the Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore growth triangle’, in: The Pacific Review 28 (4): 607–30, available online.

Nadalutti, Elisabetta (2015): 'Is EU Cross-border Cooperation Ethical? Reading Cross-border Cooperation Through the "Needs for Roots" by Simone Weil’, in: Geopolitics 20 (3): 485–512, available online.

Nadalutti, Elisabetta (2014): ‘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’, in: Asia Europe Journal Special Issue on Asia/Europe/Australia Dialogue 12 (4): 365–82.

Nadalutti, Elisabetta (2013): ‘The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation: does the nation state still count?’, in: Journal of Common Market Studies 51 (4): 756–71.

Nadalutti, Elisabetta (2012): ‘Is cross-border governance emerging in the border between Italy-Slovenia?’, in: Journal of Contemporary European Studies 20 (2): 179–96.

Nadalutti, Elisabetta (2012): ‘Re-visiting Cross-border Cooperation in the Upper Adriatic: a new kind of citizenship?’, in: European Urban and Regional Studies, July, 1–16.

Nadalutti, Elisabetta (2012): ‘Transnational Cooperation between Slovenia and Italy: what difference does it make?’, in: Simon McMahon (ed.): Developments in the Theory and Practice of Citizenship, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

• Journal Referee: Journal of Common Market Studies, and Regional and Federal Studies
• Since 2013: Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC), member and rapporteur
• 2013–2015: United National University, Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), affiliated researcher
• 2013: Università degli Studi di Trento, Jean Monnet Fellow

• Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC), member and rapporteur
• Affiliation to United Nations University, Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Brugge