By Clive H. Schofield
International limitations considers conceptual, felony and geopolitical elements of foreign borders and borderlands. This booklet additionally provides an in depth dialogue of Antarctica, a space of world territorial dispute.
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Most borderlanders are exposed to processes that have the potential for generating conflict, including border-related disputes, oppressive tariffs, restrictive migration policies, constraints to free cross-border movement, ethnic frictions, and stereotyping by outsiders. On the other hand, to be a borderlander is to have opportunities unavailable to people from heartland areas. Borderlanders live in a binational milieu and are exposed to different ideas and cultures; they also have access to a foreign economy, which increases employment possibilities and consumer choices.
This is particularly true in Western Europe and North America, where a number of binational borderlands thrive from pronounced trade, migration, cultural interchange, and social interaction. Regardless of location, borderlands around the world are alike in a number of ways. As peripheries of nation-states they are subject to frontier forces and international influences. Most borderlanders are exposed to processes that have the potential for generating conflict, including border-related disputes, oppressive tariffs, restrictive migration policies, constraints to free cross-border movement, ethnic frictions, and stereotyping by outsiders.
Much of Africa was still pink (British), blue (French), green (Portuguese), yellow (Spanish), or brown (Belgian), and I have always been uneasy 24 THE CHANGING WORLD POLITICAL ORDER with the Africa that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. It was just easier with the wide swathes of French North Africa, French Equatorial Africa, British East Africa, the Belgian Congo (as distinct from the French Congo), and such like. On the other hand, my father, born in 1913 and whose impressionable years were in the decade following the First World War, was uncomfortable with the European section of the atlas: Poland was the wrong shape; where had the Danzig corridor gone, and so on.