Border politics [ the limits of sovereign power

This book presents a distinctive theoretical approach to the problem of borders in the study of global politics. It turns from current debates about the presence or absence of borders between states to consider the possibility that the concept of the border of the state is being reconfigured in cont...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vaughan-Williams, Nick (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , c2009
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Online Access:NetLibrary
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Borders are Not What or Where They are Supposed to Be: Security, Territory, Law
  • 2. The Study of Borders in Global Politics: From Geopolitics to Biopolitics
  • 3. Violence, Territory and the Borders of Juridical-Political Order: Problematising the Limits of Sovereign Power
  • 4. The Generalised Biopolitical Border: Security as the Normal Technique of Government
  • 5. Alternative Border Imaginaries: The Politics of Framing absence of borders between states to consider the possibility that the concept of the border of the state is being reconfigured in contemporary political life