Author:
Popescu, Gabriel, 1971-
Imprint:Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., Inc., c2012.
Descriptionxi, 183 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Note:Introduction -- Making sense of borders. Introducing borders ; Thinking borders -- Borders before and during the Modern era. State limits in antiquity ; Borders during the Medieval era ; Borders during the Modern era ; The globalization of border lines ; Key moments in the emergence of contemporary state borders -- Border in the era of globalization. Border lines meet global flows ; The structure of the international economy ; The environment ; Human rights ; Transnational terrorism -- Producing global border spaces. Border-making dilemmas in the Twenty-first century ; Untangling de/reterritorialization and de/rebordering ; The geography of border spaces -- Controlling mobility. The security paradigm and border making ; Embodying borders: Techno-conquering the ultimate frontier -- Bridging borders. The cross-border cooperation paradigm ; Putting space back into borders ; Euroregions and the dimensions of border reterritorialization -- Conclusion.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
