ABSTRACT
The intended goals of transborder cooperative regionalism are simply to remove obstacles to the mobility of commodities, products, humans, and cultural programs and to seek collectively acceptable solutions to common problems that arise from a neighborhood situation and call for a neighborly solution. Facing each other across national boundaries, territorial communities have, of course, always found some informal or formal ways of regulating specific border problems. The vast area extending from Belize to the Bering and Beaufort seas represents a unique set of complex relations among noncentral governments across the national borders. International activities of noncentral governments may conceivably lead to two scenarios: centralization or federal segmentation of foreign policy. In some cases, duplication with coordination may prepare the way for such a loosening of federal bonds that segmentation may lead to territorial fragmentation and secession. The only two federal systems that officially grant their components direct access to the international system are Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.
