"On the 10th of October 2002 the International Court of Justice delivered the Bakassi Decision, which, amongst other things, excised the resource rich land and maritime territory of Bakassi from Nigeria and transferred its legal title to Cameroon. These two countries under the a…
Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan and a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. This book examines how the tensions relating to the reorganization of external military presence interact with regional states' ambitions and c…
The Regional Security Puzzle around Afghanistan
Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan and a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. This book examines how the tensions relating to the reorganization of external military presence interact with regional states? ambitions and c…
"India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, left behind a legacy of both great achievements and surprising defeats. Most notably, he failed to resolve the Kashmir dispute with Pakistan and the territorial conflict with China. In the fifty years since Nehru's death, much ink…
"In a completely new approach to borders and border crossing, this volume suggests a re-conceptualization of the nation in Southeast Asia. Choosing an actor approach, the individual chapters in this volume capture the narratives of minorities, migrants and refugees who inhabit a…
During the 1991 Gulf War, pundits and experts scrambled unsuccessfully to explain Iraq's "claim" to Kuwait. In a lucid and measured account of a complex historical and geographic drama that culminated in Operation Desert Storm, David Finnie elucidates the long Kuwaiti-Iraqi bord…
A study of the history of the evolving relationship between mapping practices and conceptions of nationhood.
What are the consequences of expanded US border and immigration enforcement in the Americas? How do migrant policing, apprehension, and removal alter livelihoods, landscapes, and wellbeing in migrant-sending communities? Despite decades of mass apprehension and removal of undocu…
What happens to an imperial economy after empire? How do economics, security, and ideology interact at the new state frontiers? Does trade always break down ideological barriers?
This dissertation examines the relationality of dispossession, racialization, and migration in Detroit, connecting the neoliberal rationality of (re)development to its foundations in Indigenous dispossession and racialized labor. "(Sī'tĭng) Detroit" understands Detroit as a bord…
This work seeks to draw a thread through the academic approaches of conceptualizing space and time—through history and cartography—across their development and with an eye specifically towards their role in the formation of borders. It seeks to draw out the manner in which such …
Borders today are commonly perceived as sites of tension and conflict. Whether conceptualized as territorial borders that purport to physically separate nations or social, political and cultural borders that ideologically split individuals, the idea of a border as impenetrable a…