Borderlines Series

28 primary works • 28 total works

Borderlines addresses international issues with the goal of revisioning global politics. It seeks to encourage a dialogue among scholars from a range of disciplines, including international relations, comparative politics, cultural studies, feminist theory, literary theory, and cultural anthropology. By analyzing specific events as well as broader …

Book 4

Beyond Sovereign Territory: The Space of Ecopolitics (Volume 4)

Beyond Sovereign Territory: The Space of Ecopolitics (Volume 4)

4.50 · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1996 · 6 editions

How should we think about politics in a world wher…

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Book 29

Borderscapes: Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory’s Edge (Volume 29)

Borderscapes: Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory’s Edge (Volume 29)

by Prem Kumar Rajaram

4.00 · 5 Ratings · published 2007 · 4 editions

Connecting critical issues of state sovereignty wi…

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Book 19

Civilization and Violence: Regimes of Representation in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

Civilization and Violence: Regimes of Representation in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

by Cristina Rojas

4.00 · 2 Ratings · published 2001 · 6 editions

Civilization and violence are not necessarily the …

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Book 12

Constructing National Interests: The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis (Volume 12)

Constructing National Interests: The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis (Volume 12)

by Jutta Weldes

4.55 · 11 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1999 · 6 editions

Not simply an “event” or merely an “incident,” the…

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Book 22

Contingent States: Greater China and Transnational Relations

Contingent States: Greater China and Transnational Relations

by William A. Callahan

3.67 · 3 Ratings · published 2004 · 7 editions

In the 1990s, Greater China became the subject of …

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Book 6

Critical Geopolitics: The Politics of Writing Global Space (Volume 6)

Critical Geopolitics: The Politics of Writing Global Space (Volume 6)

by Gearóid O’Tuathail

3.62 · 34 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1996 · 7 editions

Geography is about power, an ever-changing map of …

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Book 14

Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger

Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger

by Jutta Weldes

3.33 · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1999 · 3 editions

Examines the cultural production of insecurity in …

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Divided Korea: Toward a Culture of Reconciliation

Divided Korea: Toward a Culture of Reconciliation

by Roland Bleiker

3.60 · 5 Ratings · published 2005 · 5 editions

In 2002, North Korea precipitated a major internat…

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Book 20

Environmental Security

Environmental Security

3.75 · 12 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2002 · 3 editions

Since the end of the Cold War, environmental matte…

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Book 1

The Ethos of Pluralization

The Ethos of Pluralization

by William E. Connolly

3.96 · 25 Ratings · published 1995 · 8 editions

How plural, really, is pluralism today? In this bo…

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Book 30

Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination

Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination

by Dibyesh Anand

4.29 · 7 Ratings · published 2008 · 5 editions

Geopolitical Exotica examines exoticized Western r…

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Book 18

Identities, Borders, Orders: Rethinking International Relations Theory

Identities, Borders, Orders: Rethinking International Relations Theory

by Mathias Albert

3.60 · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2001 · 6 editions

Informed by current debates in social theory, Iden…

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Book 5

Imperial Encounters: The Politics of Representation in North-South Relations (Volume 5)

Imperial Encounters: The Politics of Representation in North-South Relations (Volume 5)

by Roxanne Lynn Doty

3.77 · 31 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1996 · 9 editions

"Developed/underdeveloped," "first world/third wor…

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Book 26

In the Space of Theory: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation-State (Volume 26)

In the Space of Theory: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation-State (Volume 26)

by Matthew Sparke

3.33 · 6 Ratings · published 2005 · 3 editions

How is the meaning of the hyphen in “nation-state”…

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Book 16

Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism

Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism

by Jennifer Hyndman

3.88 · 17 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2000 · 8 editions

Media images of people whose lives are destroyed b…

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Book 21

Native to the Nation: Disciplining Landscapes and Bodies in Australia

Native to the Nation: Disciplining Landscapes and Bodies in Australia

by Allaine Cerwonka

3.50 · 2 Ratings · published 2004 · 5 editions

In a world increasingly marked by migration and di…

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Book 10

Oh, Say, Can You See?: The Semiotics of the Military in Hawaii

Oh, Say, Can You See?: The Semiotics of the Military in Hawaii

by Kathy E. Ferguson

4.00 · 5 Ratings · published 1998 · 4 editions

Everywhere you look in Hawai'i, you might see the …

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On the Way to Diplomacy

On the Way to Diplomacy

by Costas M. Constantinou

3.20 · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1996 · 4 editions

A deconstruction of the idea of diplomacy that exp…

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Book 23

The Politics of the Global

The Politics of the Global

by Himadeep Muppidi

4.00 · 3 Ratings · published 2004 · 6 editions

Though presented often as an objective process, gl…

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Book 15

Postcolonial Insecurities: India, Sri Lanka, and the Question of Nationhood

Postcolonial Insecurities: India, Sri Lanka, and the Question of Nationhood

by Sankaran Krishna

4.00 · 4 Ratings · published 1999 · 8 editions

This ambitious work explores the vexed connections…

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Book 13

Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping: The United Nations and the Mobilization of Ideology

Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping: The United Nations and the Mobilization of Ideology

by François Debrix

4.00 · 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1999 · 3 editions

Time and again the United Nations has deployed pea…

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Sovereigns, Quasi Sovereigns, and Africans: Race and Self-Determination in International Law (Volume 3)

Sovereigns, Quasi Sovereigns, and Africans: Race and Self-Determination in International Law (Volume 3)

by Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui

4.00 · 13 Ratings · published 1996 · 5 editions

In this trenchant critique, Siba N'Zatioula Grovog…

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Book 11

States and Strangers: Refugees and Displacements of Statecraft

States and Strangers: Refugees and Displacements of Statecraft

by Nevzat Soguk

4.00 · 6 Ratings · published 1999 · 4 editions

Refugees may flee their country, but can they esca…

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Book 28

The Subject of Coexistence: Otherness in International Relations (Volume 28)

The Subject of Coexistence: Otherness in International Relations (Volume 28)

by Louiza Odysseos

4.00 · 3 Ratings · published 2007 · 4 editions

In this pioneering book, Louiza Odysseos argues th…

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Book 27

Toward a Global Idea of Race

Toward a Global Idea of Race

by Denise Ferreira da Silva

4.17 · 71 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2007 · 8 editions

In this far-ranging and penetrating work, Denise F…

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Book 9

Uses of the Other: “The East” in European Identity Formation

Uses of the Other: “The East” in European Identity Formation

by Iver B. Neumann

3.88 · 24 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1998 · 8 editions

The field of international relations has recently …

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Virtue, Fortune, and Faith: A Genealogy of Finance (Volume 24)

Virtue, Fortune, and Faith: A Genealogy of Finance (Volume 24)

by Marieke de Goede

4.23 · 13 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2005 · 5 editions

Less than two centuries ago finance - today viewed…

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Book 17

Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid

Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid

by Jenny Edkins

4.43 · 14 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2000 · 5 editions

An analytical look at the ways we define and respo…

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