EU internal security concerns such as migration, police and judicial cooperation are today part of EU foreign policy. This book shows how those concerns have taken over the EU agenda towards Mediterranean countries. Adopting a rational-choice institutionalist approach, it explor…
Where it divides Arizona and Sonora, the international boundary between Mexico and the United States is both a political reality, literally expressed by a fence, and, to a considerable degree, a cultural illusion. Mexican, Anglo, and Native American cultures straddle the fence; …
Griffith (director, Southwest Folklore Center, U. of Arizona) examines some of the distinctive folk expressions of the region around the border between the US and Mexico where it divides Arizona and Sonora. Among the topics are patterns of cemetery art and decoration, painted gl…
"In this book, Francis Carroll tells the story of the attempts to settle the original boundary between British North America and the United States. The author's extensive research draws on manuscript materials never used for the subject before. The book is the first to explain t…
"In this book, Francis Carroll tells the story of the attempts to settle the original boundary between British North America and the United States. The author's extensive research draws on manuscript materials never used for the subject before. The book is the first to explain t…
The story of the attempts to settle the original boundary between British North America and the United States. Though established by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the boundary was plagued by ambiguities and errors in the document.
Why do countries go to war over disputed lands? This revisionist study identifies the process of decolonisation as the root of contemporary Asian interstate territorial conflicts. It does so by foregrounding the political implications of identifying a fixed territorial homeland …
Why do countries go to war over disputed lands? Why do they fight even when the territories in question are economically and strategically worthless? Drawing on critical approaches to international relations, political geography, international law, and social history, and based …