Regionalism in a Global Society: Persistence and Change in Atlantic
Canada and New England, Stephen G. Tomblin and Charles S. Colgan, eds.,
Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2004, pp. 333Perceived economic globalization and Europe's progressive
supranationalism have inspired a regional politics growth industry,
centred on Europe, which addresses how regions increasingly form and
operate trans-border institutions. Defining regionalism as the creation of
new partnerships or regions across jurisdictions, Memorial
University's Stephen Tomblin describes this book's thirteen
essays, divided almost evenly between Canadian and American scholars, as
an effort to overcome the lack of substantial research on North
America's cross-border regions (8). The book will satisfy most
readers seeking an update on the slowly growing regional initiatives
inside the Atlantic region (only sometimes including
Newfoundland) and the states of New England. But as the book's
contributors make clear, for all the ever-increasing trans-border truck
crossings and energy sales, most recently for Sable Island gas,
institutional cooperation between these provinces and states
remains limited.