Cross – Border Politics and Its Image in the European Union
Cross – Border Politics and Its Image in the European Union

Summary/Abstract: Abstract: The article presents the relationship between politics and frontiers. It explains how politics was born, its relation with the evolution of humanity and its history, the importance of identity in the relations inside a group, a nation and between them. The history of borders and frontiers is presented, the changing of their meaning along centuries and how they influence politics and international relations. The image of the Other and its origins are presented and its role in the political imagery. The author considers that the most important problem of cultural mondialization is how people should live together at a global level with all the cultural differences which keep changing all the time. Other influential things are: the importance of mass media for the cultural activities, the problems of national identity which are strongly related to culture and its symbols, the impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall upon the globalization of media, the empire of the internet, the commercial media that bring profits of millions of dollars.

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