Standard arguments for open borders draw on cosmopolitan premises. By contrast, statism as a theory of global justice seems to be at odds with open borders. If states are only responsible for protecting the autonomy of citizens and do not owe foreign...
23 March 2021
Throughout much of its history, the sociological study of human communities in disaster has been based on events that occur rapidly, are limited in geographic scope, and their management understood as phased stages of response, recovery, mitigation a...
Against the backdrop of accelerating globalization and the reconfiguration of ecological security patterns, border regions—serving as critical carriers of national spatial governance—exhibit pronounced spatial heterogeneity and stage-depe...
The quest for safe, orderly and regular migration underpins the UN Global Compact for Migration (GCM) and translates into “comprehensive and integrated” responses to large movements of refugees and migrants. The effort to de-compartmental...
This paper addresses the role of the U.S. dollar in fostering global economic growth during the post-war period. The existing literature lacks a comprehensive understanding of the true implications of the U.S. dollar’s status as a reserve curre...
Global decarbonization and the rapid growth of distributed energy resources increase the need for information-centric mechanisms that can support secure, scalable, cross-border coordination under heterogeneous technical and regulatory conditions. Thi...
With a focus on refugees’ written personal narratives on refugee NGO websites, this paper examines ongoing transculturalism in Britain and its interplay with globalization and current international migration. Conceiving such personal narratives...
Spring phenology is the most sensitive indicator of climate change and exploring its response to climate change has important implications for ecosystem processes in the study area. The temperature changes before and after the global warming hiatus m...
Global virtual exchange is a mode of teaching that can reach classrooms beyond national borders and across disciplines. This paper utilizes students’ online conversations and learning projects as primary data to demonstrate experiential learnin...
Border disease virus (BDV) belongs to the genus Pestivirus of the family Flaviviridae. Interspecies transmission of BDV between sheep, cattle, and pigs occurs regularly, sometimes making diagnosis a challenge. BDV can yield substantial economic losse...
This article analyses the (potential) role of the Global Compact for Migration and the Global Compact for Refugees in the development of EU law concerning asylum seekers who arrive at the external borders of the European Union (EU). Under the current...
Kristen Sandrock (2020) connects John Lanchester’s 2019 Brexit novel The Wall with what she refers to as ‘British border epistemologies’; that is, a radical process of re-bordering due to global warming and its impact on human mobil...
A critical review of urban planning scientific aspects of the study of the globalization of settlement systems, including the impact of cross-border and transcontinental links on global urban and interethnic integration and communication processes, i...
Nowadays, in the complex business network system, the interaction of firms across borders is facing several challenges. Many studies in the literature also suggest numerous approaches to overcome these challenges. However, a few of the obstacles for...
This paper investigates the role of cross-border trade in shaping participation in global value chains (GVCs) in developing and emerging economies over the period 2000–2022. It tests the central hypothesis that greater trade intensity enhances...
This article aims to show how the globalized securities market in general and a transnational legal business structure named variable interest entity (VIE) in particular has challenged our conventional understanding of “foreignness” as a...
Immunization is a core component of the human right to health. However, accessibility to the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) might be difficult among migrant children. This study aims to assess the vaccination coverage of migrant children unde...
The COVID-19 outbreak significantly impacted global health, resulting in widespread infections and fatalities. In response, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats (PRET) program, focusing on...
The global financial system is undergoing a period of increasing fragmentation as payment and settlement infrastructures become politicised and alternative systems emerge. Platforms such as SWIFT and Euroclear remain central to cross-border finance,...
The purpose of this research is to present a new model for understanding ethnonationalism: the dynamic ethnonationalism model, which depicts ethnic nationalism as an entity comprised of inherited elements as well as selective and changing ones. Accor...
Citizenship is not only a legal status but also a form of recognition. Every state defines who belongs by tracing lines of descent, yet the way ancestry is proven differs widely. This study compares nationality laws in Europe, Africa, and North Ameri...
26 September 2022
Malaria remains a global disease of public health concern. Malaria control collaborative initiatives are widely being adopted to reduce malaria burden by various countries. This review sought to describe current and past cross-border malaria control...
The advancement of globalization has encouraged an increasing number of enterprises to go abroad and take cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to expand their overseas market and improve core competitiveness, although many acquirers fail t...
International import and export trade, along with cross-border logistics management, plays a pivotal role in the era of globalization, driving the development of the global economy and fostering international trade prosperity. Nevertheless, the conti...
The international apparel market is becoming more complex and competitive, but the multidimensional, human-centred capabilities that underpin export success in institutionally constrained markets are not well understood. This paper discusses the stra...
Amid rising geopolitical fragmentation and growing uncertainty in global financial systems, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are increasingly viewed as a potential innovation in cross-border digital payments. This paper provides a systematic r...
The purpose of this paper is to build a systematic framework of the spatial spillover effects of host country heterogeneity, and to illustrate the impact of the third country effect of reverse cross-border mergers and acquisitions in emerging countri...
5 March 2026
This theoretical paper examines immigrant women’s entrepreneurship in the post-pandemic Global South. We challenge conventional models that fail to capture economic engagement driven by necessity and survival. Using an intersectional lens, the...
This paper estimates global logistic regression and logistic geographically weighted regression (GWR) models of urban growth in the adjacent border cities of Laredo, Texas in the United States and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas in Mexico, for two time peri...
As a sustainability-oriented mode of education, cross-border digital education has distinct advantages, including a low carbon footprint associated with decreased student and staff commute times and expanded accessibility for disadvantaged learners....
This article examines the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) as a regulatory instrument of the European Union, situated at the intersection of international trade law, customs law and environmental protection. The primary objective of the stud...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the internationalisation activities of multinational corporations (MNCs) through enhanced operational efficiencies and optimised decision-making; though the moderating factors influencing its impact on exp...
Facing the goal of net-zero emissions in 2050, the EU will pilot the European Carbon Boundary Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) in 2023 and formally implement it in 2026. The scope of control includes cement, electricity, fertilizer, steel, aluminum, and f...
Several state institutions are involved in border security management, including border guards, customs services, veterinary and phytosanitary supervision, and other institutions whose areas of responsibility overlap at border control points. In this...
22 April 2021
Rising global temperatures and seawater temperatures have led to an increase in extreme weather patterns leading to droughts and floods. These natural phenomena, in turn, affect the supply of drinking water in some communities, which causes an increa...
The structure of the network among firms participating in global value chains is an important factor in understanding the changes in China’s carbon emissions. This paper focuses on the interdependence between firms and the interconnected networ...
With the process of globalization, many political geographers and research institutions have begun to focus on borders and border areas. Faced with the current debate on the border policies, this paper reviews the former research relating to border s...
This article considers contemporary border management regimes from a human rights perspective. It demonstrates how a preoccupation with border controls and enforcement has led to serious concerns for the safety and protection of migrants. As border z...
In 2020, the cross-border e-commerce industry suffered a setback against the backdrop of the global epidemic. In the context of the global epidemic and economic structural reform and transformation, China has proposed a new economic pattern of &ldquo...
To facilitate a direct comparison of the differences in network resources among countries worldwide, this paper proposes a method for quantifying the relationship between autonomous systems and territorial networks from the perspective of network top...
In the process of responding to global climate change, carbon tariffs have attracted much attention as a new type of trade protection and environmental governance means. The European Union is a pioneer in global carbon tariff policies. Currently, the...
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the border city of Jilong in Tibet, China, within the wider context of the global south and the transformation of China’s interior frontier in recent decades. It examines the transformation proces...
Many countries worldwide share borders that offer several benefits, such as easier access, faster knowledge transfer, and more efficient trade diplomacy. However, reliance on land-border trade alone has not been consistently shown to increase GDP per...
Cross-border cooperation (CBC) is defined as the structured, institutionalized, or informal collaboration between adjacent regional and local authorities, economic actors, and civil society groups across international state borders. Within contempora...
How to reshape the cross-border agricultural supply chain is a common concern in the global agricultural field. Using the bibliometrics method, 761 studies in the literature were selected from the core database of WOS (Web of Science) to explore rese...
Disease-associated macrophage states contribute to the pathogenesis of numerous inflammatory disorders. While small molecule-mediated macrophage repolarization represents a promising strategy to restore homeostasis, current approaches often rely on p...
The current global mobility paradigm suffers from a great paradox. The illegality of human mobility is manufactured through restrictive migration and asylum policies, which claim to address the supposed challenges of human mobility, such as erosion o...
The importance of inland ports in promoting current cross-border trade is increasingly recognized. In this work, we aim to design the entire network for the cross-border multimodal container transport system based on inland ports. Unlike previous stu...
Given its intensity, rapid spread, geographic reach and multiple waves of infections, the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020/21 became a major global disruptor with a truly cross-sectoral impact, surpassing even the 1918/19 influenza epidemic. Public health m...
In the post-epidemic era, cross-border e-commerce has become a new growth point for global foreign trade. Unlike traditional trade, which is dominated by marine transport, cross-border e-commerce transactions have high requirements for both marine an...
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