Book Review: Holding the Line: Borders in a Global World, by Heather N. Nicol and Ian Townsend-Gault (eds.), Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press (2005)

Bruno Dupeyron (1)

1 School of Public Administration, University of Victoria

Holding the Line: Borders in a Global World is a collection of papers, edited by Heather Nicol and Ian Townsend-Gault, which were originally presented at the Permeable Borders and Boundaries Conference in Vancouver (B.C.) in August 1999. This book presents a series of nineteen case studies and conceptual papers organized in eight parts. According to the editors, they “offer different perspectives on the nature of the new seismic forces” at work on and around borders and borderlands as they are transformed by globalization.

Mots clés: boundaries; cross-border cooperation; globalization; international relations

Domaines: Science politique

Bruno Dupeyron. Book Review: Holding the Line: Borders in a Global World, by Heather N. Nicol and Ian Townsend-Gault (eds.), Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press (2005). Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2007, 22 (1), pp.123-125. ⟨halshs-00157734⟩