Abstract
This review and theoretical reflection addresses the treatment of trans-border governance networks in South America and its relation with development and territorial integration. In consequence, it reviews the regional, national, and international literature around this subject in order to identify analytical trends and topics worthy of being researched. Finally, on the basis of this review, a general strategy for the analysis of trans-border governance networks will be offered, built on three integrated phases of analysis in order to study the governance network’s capacity, coordination, innovation, and development. Through this strategy we aim to study processes of territorial development integration, and innovation on a local and border scales under mechanisms of local and multilevel governance.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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