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Article: The Arizona-Sonora and Ecuador-Peru borderlands: common interests and shared goals in diverse settings.
- Article from:
- Journal of the Southwest
- Article date:
- December 22, 2003
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In an age of globalization, interest in cross-border cooperation has increased significantly throughout the world. National governments and local borderland communities seek to live in harmony with their neighbors to maximize the mutual benefits of sociopolitical and economic cooperation. The United States and Mexico have shared a commonly defined border for about 150 years. Today's boundary reflects Mexico's loss of nearly half its territory following the resolution of the Mexican War, which largely resulted from the United States' expansionist ambitions. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) and the Gadsden Purchase (1853) established the "scar" between the two ...