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This is an excellent examination of how the collapse of the Soviet Union and the impact of globalization have brought about changes not only to the territorial configuration sovereignty of states and their boundaries, but also to traditional notions of state, boundaries, sovereignty and social order.
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Globalisation and the changing world political map, David Newman, Nurit Kliot. Part 1 Geopolitics and globalisation: the worldviews of small states - a content analysis of 1995 UN speeches, Stanley D. Brunn; ordering the crush zone, geopolitical games in post-Cold War Eastern Europe, John O'Loughlin; economic globalisation, politics and trade policy in Ghana and Kenya, Richard Grant; geopolitical change and the Asia-Pacific - the future of new regionalism, Dennis Rumley; global stability through inequality versus peace processes through equality, Fabrizio Eva; review essay - reclaiming geopolitics - geographers strike back, Virginie Mamadouh. Part 2 Boundaries and territory -borderless worlds: problematising discourses of deterretorialisation in global finance and digital culture, Geraoid O'Tuathail; metaphors and community on the US-Mexico border - identity, exclusion, inclusion and Operation hold the line, Jason M. Ackleson; African boundaries and their interpreters, Maano Ramutsindela; common cause for borderland minorities? shared status among Italy's ethnic communities, Julian V. Minghi; bounding whose territory? potential conflict between a state and a province desiring statehood, David B. Knight; seeking the common ground, Frederick W. Boal; review essay - boundaries in borderless world, Victor Prescott.
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Kliot, Nurit; Newman, David
Summary
This is an excellent examination of how the collapse of the Soviet Union and the impact of globalization have brought about changes not only to the territorial configuration sovereignty of states and their boundaries, but also to traditional notions of state, boundaries, sovereignty and social order.
