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Frontier: Territory and State Formation in the Modern World

By: Malcolm Anderson(Author)
255 pages, Maps
Publisher: Polity
Frontier: Territory and State Formation in the Modern World
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About this book

Where frontiers are, and what purposes they serve, affect all human societies in the contemporary world. Frontier: Territory and State Formation in the Modern World argues that frontiers are not simply lines on maps – they are inseparable from the development of the states which they enclose. Understanding them is essential to the understanding of political life. Arguments used to justify frontier policies raise crucial, often dramatic, questions concerning citizenship, identity, political loyalty and the ends of the state. Contemporary international frontiers originated in the violent process of state formation in Western Europe. Certain international law doctrines of entitlement to territory were subsequently invented. But the legitimacy of frontiers has increasingly been based on the liberal concept of self-determination, an ambiguous doctrine which sometimes complicates European boundary disputes. European ideas, and European imperial domination, established African and Asian frontiers. The relative stability of these imposed frontiers is subject to a wide variety of challenges. But the international frontier in Europe is also subject to serious consideration for different reasons. The development of the European Union and the growth of transfrontier links between local and regional authorities may undermine the international frontier as the basic political institution. But one element of the traditional sovereign control of frontiers – policing the movement of people across frontiers – remains at the centre of political debate. Perceptions of frontiers have been radically altered by technologies which have made use of uninhabited spaces – Antarctica, seas and oceans, airspace and outer space. International regimes regulate the new uses of these spaces. Taken together with regional integration, especially in Europe, these developments are changing the various meanings given to the international frontier.

Contents

List of Maps
Introduction

1. The International Frontier in Historical and Theoretical Perspective
2. Self-Determination, Secession and Autonomy: European Cases of Boundary-Drawing
3. Themes in African and Asian Frontier Disputes
4. Boundaries within States: Size, Democracy and Service Provision
5. Frontiers and Migration
6. Uninhabited Zones and International Cooperation

Conclusion: The European Union and the Future of Frontiers
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Customer Reviews

Biography

Malcolm Anderson is Professor of Politics and Director of International Social Sciences Institute, at the University of Edinburgh.

By: Malcolm Anderson(Author)
255 pages, Maps
Publisher: Polity
Media reviews

"Maps excellently portray different types of boundaries and transgressions [...] Anderson has excellently illustrated the cartographic realities which add so much meaning to simple demarcating lines."
- Political Studies

"Lucid survey [...] Anderson has surveyed the major issues to do with state frontiers in the modern world. The book provides an excellent introduction to various special interests in frontiers."
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