Borderlines and borderlands political oddities at the edge of the nation-state

Introduction:Borders, identity, and geopolitics / Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen -- The Border enclaves of India and Bangladesh: The forgotten lands / Reece Jones -- The Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan boundary: Stalin's cartography, post-Soviet geography / Nick Megoran -- The Wakhan Corridor: endg...

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Weitere Verfasser: Diener, Alexander C. (HerausgeberIn), Hagen, Joshua (HerausgeberIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, inc. 2010
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction:Borders, identity, and geopolitics / Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen -- The Border enclaves of India and Bangladesh: The forgotten lands / Reece Jones -- The Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan boundary: Stalin's cartography, post-Soviet geography / Nick Megoran -- The Wakhan Corridor: endgame of the Great Game / William C. Rowe -- The Caprivi Strip of Namibia: shifting sovereignty and the negotiation of boundaries / Robert Lloyd -- The renaissance of a border that never died: The Green Line between Israel and the West Bank / David Newman -- Locating Kurdistan: contextualizing the region's ambiguous boundaries / Karen Culcasi -- Russia's Kaliningrad exclave: discountinuity as a threat to sovereignty / Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen -- Defining Liechtenstein: sovereign borders, offshore banking, and national identity / Robert Ostergren -- Misiones Province, Argentina: how borders shape political identity / Eric D. Carter -- Point Roberts, Washington: boundary problems of an American exclave / Julian V. Minghi -- Conclusion:borders in a changing global context / Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-258) and index. - Introduction Borders, identity, and geopolitics / Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen -- The Border enclaves of India and Bangladesh: The forgotten lands / Reece Jones -- The Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan boundary: Stalin's cartography, post-Soviet geography / Nick Megoran -- The Wakhan Corridor: endgame of the Great Game / William C. Rowe -- The Caprivi Strip of Namibia: shifting sovereignty and the negotiation of boundaries / Robert Lloyd -- The renaissance of a border that never died: The Green Line between Israel and the West Bank / David Newman -- Locating Kurdistan: contextualizing the region's ambiguous boundaries / Karen Culcasi -- Russia's Kaliningrad exclave: discountinuity as a threat to sovereignty / Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen -- Defining Liechtenstein: sovereign borders, offshore banking, and national identity / Robert Ostergren -- Misiones Province, Argentina: how borders shape political identity / Eric D. Carter -- Point Roberts, Washington: boundary problems of an American exclave / Julian V. Minghi -- Conclusion borders in a changing global context / Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen
Beschreibung:ix, 281 Seiten
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24 cm
ISBN:9780742556362
978-0-7425-5636-2
9780742556355
978-0-7425-5635-5