This book presents a new approach to management in an increasingly interactive world. In this
context the use of the word new has two meanings. The first relates to a new definition of
borders (which are natural institutional functional or mixed) the second concerns the fact
that the book applies (and where necessary develops) analytical tools methods and models
that are different from those used in other similar books. The objectives of this book are: to
clarify whether existing management theories and methods can be effectively applied in an
entity (which can be defined as a sovereign country a region a community a culture or a
firm) as the latter increasingly interacts with the rest of the world to develop qualitative
and quantitative methods to help leaders make optimal decisions for their entity and at the
same time to maximize the positive (or minimize the negative) effects of those decisions on
the rest of the world and to design workable cross-border cooperation plans and
conflict-management schemes that allow policy-makers to better cope with the challenges and
problems posed by our increasingly interactive world.
