Borderlines and borderlands : political oddities at the edge of the nation-state / / edited by Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen.

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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:ix, 281 p. :; ill., maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.