Border Politics is a wonderfully ambitious book, which outlines alternative conceptualizations of the border while avoiding the cliched themes of geopolitical border studies... This is an agenda-setting book, both in terms of demonstrating how new and challenging ideas can be incorporated into border studies, and more importantly, in leading the way in thinking the problem of the border afresh in ... Read moreorder to understand the diversity of bordering strategies which exist in world politics.
ABS Book Awards 2011 Association for Borderlands Studies A significant contribution to debates about borders that deserves wide-spread attention.
John Williams, University of Durham An urgently needed book.
Yosef Lapid, New Mexico State University The study of international boundaries ... has evolved from a rather descriptive study at the intersection of the legal and the geographical fields into a dynamic and exponentially growing field of boundary making, bordering, and othering ... [Border Politics is a] strong contribution to these academic debates ... [It] provide[s] insightful points of departure for those aspiring to contribute to this exciting research agenda and formulate[s] thought-provoking puzzles and moral dilemmas for all of us.
Virginie Mamadouh Environment and Planning D: Society and Space Border Politics is a wonderfully ambitious book, which outlines alternative conceptualizations of the border while avoiding the cliched themes of geopolitical border studies... This is an agenda-setting book, both in terms of demonstrating how new and challenging ideas can be incorporated into border studies, and more importantly, in leading the way in thinking the problem of the border afresh in order to understand the diversity of bordering strategies which exist in world politics. A significant contribution to debates about borders that deserves wide-spread attention. An urgently needed book. The study of international boundaries ... has evolved from a rather descriptive study at the intersection of the legal and the geographical fields into a dynamic and exponentially growing field of boundary making, bordering, and othering ... [Border Politics is a] strong contribution to these academic debates ... [It] provide[s] insightful points of departure for those aspiring to contribute to this exciting research agenda and formulate[s] thought-provoking puzzles and moral dilemmas for all of us. Show Less