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Title Borderlines and borderlands [electronic resource] : political oddities at the edge of the nation-state / edited by Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen.

Imprint Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010.

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Description ix, 281 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-258) and index.
Contents Introduction : Borders, identity, and geopolitics / Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen -- The Border enclaves of India and Bangladesh : The forgotten lands / Reece Jones -- The Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan boundary : Stalin's cartography, post-Soviet geography / Nick Megoran -- The Wakhan Corridor : endgame of the Great Game / William C. Rowe -- The Caprivi Strip of Namibia : shifting sovereignty and the negotiation of boundaries / Robert Lloyd -- The renaissance of a border that never died : The Green Line between Israel and the West Bank / David Newman -- Locating Kurdistan : contextualizing the region's ambiguous boundaries / Karen Culcasi -- Russia's Kaliningrad exclave: discountinuity as a threat to sovereignty / Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen -- Defining Liechtenstein : sovereign borders, offshore banking, and national identity / Robert Ostergren -- Misiones Province, Argentina : how borders shape political identity / Eric D. Carter -- Point Roberts, Washington : boundary problems of an American exclave / Julian V. Minghi -- Conclusion : borders in a changing global context / Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Boundaries.
Boundary disputes.
Human territoriality -- Political aspects.
Geopolitics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Diener, Alexander C.
Hagen, Joshua, 1974-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780742556355 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742556352 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780742556362 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0742556360 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780742568440 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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