| Summary: | This paper aims at analyzing the frontier as a space for political, economic and social integration, with emphasis on the international performance of transborder subnational governments. Firstly, we seek to identify the contributions of History, Geopolitics and Law in the definition of the concept of frontier (border), highlighting its polysemic character. From then on, we seek to understand the frontier (border) from an international perspective, identifying it as an important factor for the external action of subnational governments, which develop strategies for transborder cooperation with their foreign neighbors, inserting the local interests of the frontier areas into the regional integration processes. Finally, the Codesul-Crecenea partnership is used as a case study to identify how the studied phenomenon unfolds empirically in the context of Mercosur.
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