Based on the conceptualizations of organized crime as both an enterprise and a form of
governance, borderland as a spatial category, and borders as institutions, this paper looks at …

Controlling national borders has once again become a key concern of contemporary states
and a highly contentious issue in social and political life. But controlling borders is about …

19. Jahrhunderts by CH Beck publishers in Munich in January 2009. it rapidly went through
five editions and two unnumbered special editions and is now being translated into Chinese …

From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China
has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam …

Borders are where wars start, as Primo Levi once wrote. But they are also bridges-that is,
sites for ongoing cultural exchange. Anyone studying how nations and states maintain …

ANDERSON J. and O'DOWD L.(1999) Borders, border regions and territoriality:
contradictory meanings, changing signi® cance, Reg. Studies 33, 593±604. The meaning …

Sit down in any food stall and listen to the people around you. Imagine you are a language
expert. Enjoy the flow of Mon-Khmer from the tables around you. Listen to the children in the …

Nation-states often shape the boundaries of historical enquiry, and thus silence the very
histories that have sutured nations to territorial states." India" and" Pakistan" were drawn …

The post-cold war era has seen an unmistakable trend toward the proliferation of violent non-
state groups-variously labeled terrorists, rebels, paramilitaries, gangs, and criminals-near …

The Bengal Borderland constitutes the epicentre of the partition of British India. Yet while the
forging of international borders between India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma (the'Bengal …