Reflections on the relevance of classic approaches and contemporary priorities in boundary studies

Geopolitics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 650-662

  Grundy Warr, Carl ^a   Schofield, Clive ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; BORDER REGION; GEOPOLITICS;

EID: 30944465871     PISSN: 14650045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14650040500318548     Document Type: Article

References (78)

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2. Ibid., p.427.
3. See also his subsequent work such as J.Minghi, 'From Conflict to Harmony in Border Landscapes', in D. Rumley and J. Minghi (eds), The Geography of Border Landscapes (London: Routledge 1991), pp.15-30
4. J. Minghi, 'European Borderlands: International Harmony, Landscape Change and New Conflicts', in C. Grundy-Warr (ed.), Eurasia - World Boundaries (London: Routledge 1994), pp.89-98
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7. and J.R.V. Prescott, The Geography of Frontiers and Boundaries (Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company 1965).
8. Prescott's text cites and compliments other 'epic' boundary studies, such as A. Lamb, The McMahon Line, 2 vols (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1966)
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10. and J.C. Wilkinson, Arabia's Frontiers. The Story of Britain's Boundary Drawing in the Desert (London: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd 1991).
11. J.R.V. Prescott, Map of Mainland Asia by Treaty (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press 1975)
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13. See, for example, R.Adler, Geographical Information in Delimitation Demarcation and Management of International Land Boundaries, Boundary and Territory Briefing 3/4 (Durham: International Boundaries Research Unit 2001)
14. C.M. Carleton and C.H. Schofield, Developments in the Technical Determination of Maritime Space: Delimitation, Dispute Resolution, Geographical Information Systems and the Role of the Technical Expert, Maritime Briefing 3/4 (Durham: International Boundaries Research Unit 2002).
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16. The other political geography reference used by Thongchai was R. Muir, Modern Political Geography (London: Macmillan 1975). The use of Prescott's notions undoubtedly influenced Thongchai's discussions of 'lashes' in conceptions and discourses about 'boundaries' between the British and Siamese officials in the early and mid-nineteenth centuries.
17. Prescott (note 2) p.80.
18. Prescott (note 3) pp.99-100.
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24. Ibid., p.21.
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28. Ibid., p.23.
29. D. Newman, 'Boundaries', in J. Agnew, K. Mitchell and G. Toal (eds), A Companion to Political Geography (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing 2003), pp.128-30.
30. For instance, the special issue 'When is the Nation?' of Geopolitics 7/2 (Autumn 2002)
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32. Also see various contributions to 'Special Issue: Postnational Politics in the European Union', Geopolitics 9/3 (2004).
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35. M.J. Shapiro, 'Introduction to Part 1', in Shapiro and Alker (note 18) p.3.
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37. Winichakul (note 7) p.17.
38. S. Dalby, Environmental Security (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2002).
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43. and Prescott, Political Frontiers (note 3) pp.68-77.
44. See also earlier classic texts such as S.W. Boggs, International Boundaries: A Study of Boundary Functions and Problems (New York: Columbia University Press 1940)
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47. Ibid., p.64.
48. See also D. Newman, 'From "Moribund Backwater" to "Thriving into the Next Century": Political Geography at the Turn of the Millennium', in C. Schofield, D. Newman, A. Drysdale and J. Allison-Brown (eds), The Razor's Edge: International Boundaries and Political Geography (London: Kluwer Law International 2002), pp.3-24.
49. See IBRU's publications and news archive at .
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55. Or, we should say, military regime in the case of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), the ruling military authority of Burma.
56. C. Grundy-Warr, 'The Silence and Violence of Forced Migration: The Myanmar-Thailand Border', in A. Ananta and E.N. Arifin (eds), International Migration in Southeast Asia (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2004), pp.228-72.
57. C. Grundy-Warr, 'Lost in Sovereign Space: Forced Migrants in the Territorial Trap', Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 11/4 (2002) pp.437-61.
58. R. Prem Kumar and C. Grundy-Warr (note 28) pp.35-9.
59. See, for example, J.R.V. Prescott, Maritime Jurisdiction on Southeast Asia: A Commentary and Map (Honolulu, HI: East West Center 1981);
60. J.R.V. Prescott, The Maritime Political Boundaries of the World, (London: Methuen 1985);
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62. Minghi, 'Boundary Studies' (note 1) pp.422-3.
63. Ibid., pp.424 and 428.
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65. Prescott and Schofield (note 42), pp.217-18.
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67. Prescott and Schofield (note 42) pp.9 and 30.
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74. Prescott and Schofield (note 42) pp.221-4.
75. B.H. Oxman, 'Political, Strategic, and Historical Considerations', in J.I. Charney and L.M. Alexander (eds), International Maritime Boundaries, Vol. I (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff 1993), pp.2-40.
76. Prescott and Schofield (note 42) pp.216-18.
77. See J.A. Roach and R.W. Smith, United States Responses to Excessive Maritime Claims, 2nd ed. (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff 1996).
78. Newman, 'Into the Millennium (note 12) p.63.