B/ordering Space (Border Region)
Contributors: Henk Van Houtum (Editor); Oliver Kramsch (Editor); Wolfgang Ziefhofer (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: January 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780754637639
Subjects: Geopolitics; Human geography; Politics - Current Events; General; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; Boundaries; Political geography
First sentence: Although regional transformation seems to be a perpetually accelerating phenomenon, we have for a long time been used to living with certain large-scale socio-spatial facts in our modern world, prominent among which has been the existence of states and their boundaries, a certainty that has been canonized in international law and in the actions of the United Nations.