Good fences, bad neighbors
Subtitle: border fixity and international conflict
By: Boaz Atzili
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226031354; 9780226031361
Subjects: Boundaries; Political aspects; Nation-building
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The theory and practice of borders; title: Which wars make the state and which states make war; title: Preconditions to state building: making the case for comparison; title: State building and state weakness before border fixity: Brandenburg-Prussia, Argentina, and Poland-Lithuania; title: State building and state weakness in a fixed-borders world: Lebanon, Congo and Israel; title: State weakness and international conflict in a fixed-borders world.