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The term "Pogranichie" is the Russian language equivalent to the English term "borderland" and this work studies how borderlands serve as distinctively creative spaces for cultural exchange. The book studies how social interactions occur in post-soviet bloc countries that try to democratize, and presents a model for Eastern European development. If there is a lack of actorship in social processes and communication is broken off, then development cannot occur. The authors look at what circumstances promote agency and actorship which in turn changes the dynamic of the entire Pogranichie communit

Borderlands. --- Creative ability -- Europe, Eastern. --- Creative ability. --- Creative ability --- Borderlands --- Social Sciences --- Psychology --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- Creativeness --- Creativity --- Ability --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

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There is continued discussion in International Relations surrounding the existence (or not) of the 'democratic peace' - the idea that democracies do not fight each other. This book argues that threats to homeland territories force centralization within the state, for three reasons. First, territorial threats are highly salient to individuals, and leaders must respond by promoting the security of the state. Second, threatened territories must be defended by large, standing land armies and these armies can then be used as forces for repression during times of peace. Finally, domestic political bargaining is dramatically altered during times of territorial threat, with government opponents joining the leader in promoting the security of the state. Leaders therefore have a favorable environment in which to institutionalize greater executive power. These forces explain why conflicts are associated with centralized states, and in turn why peace is associated with democracy.

Boundary disputes. --- Boundaries. --- Borderlands. --- 852 Internationale conflicten --- 820 Internationale betrekkingen --- 827 Geopolitiek --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- Borders (Geography) --- Boundary lines --- Geographical boundaries --- International boundaries --- Lines, Boundary --- Natural boundaries --- Perimeters (Boundaries) --- Political boundaries --- Borderlands --- Territory, National --- Border disputes --- Disputes, Boundary --- Territorial boundary disputes --- Boundary disputes --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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'Borders' offers insights into the form and function of historical and contemporary political and social boundaries. The authors show how and why borders will undoubtedly remain controversial topics and at the forefront of global headlines for years to come.

Boundaries. --- Borderlands. --- Boundary disputes. --- Human territoriality --- Human geography. --- Political anthropology. --- International relations. --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Anthropology, Political --- Government, Primitive --- Ethnology --- Political science --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Territorial behavior --- Territoriality, Human --- Human geography --- Spatial behavior --- Border disputes --- Disputes, Boundary --- Territorial boundary disputes --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- Borders (Geography) --- Boundary lines --- Geographical boundaries --- International boundaries --- Lines, Boundary --- Natural boundaries --- Perimeters (Boundaries) --- Political boundaries --- Borderlands --- Territory, National --- Political aspects. --- Anthropological aspects --- POLITICAL ANTROPOLOGY -- 572 --- BORDERS -- 572 --- HUMAN TERRITORIALITY -- 91.07

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In the context of European integration, the relative opening of state borders offers new opportunities for border cities and regions no longer necessarily confined to the boundaries of national territories. The development of cross-border relations at the local and regional levels brings to the fore the emergence of cross-border metropolitan regions as privileged sites of territorial restructuring. Drawing on the results of the Metrolux research project, this book examines the establishment of a cross-border metropolitan region in Luxembourg and its surrounding area. In the first section, the primary focus is on the economic and symbolic attributes that characterize the process of metropolisation and their potential advantages and limits. The second part of the volume investigates the cross-border interdependencies at work, principally in terms of home-work mobility. Finally, the third part analyses the governance initiatives undertaken and the power issues at stake in the political construction of a cross-border metropolitan region. Primarily derived from research by geographers, this work combines conceptual reflection with empirical analysis and is a new contribution to the understanding of an atypical area of scholarship emerging from the geographic margins and the academic backstage.

Metropolitan areas --- Municipal government --- Globalization --- Borderlands --- Regional economics. --- Agglomérations urbaines --- Administration municipale --- Mondialisation --- Régions frontalières --- Economie régionale --- Economic aspects --- History --- Aspect économique --- Histoire --- Luxembourg --- Economic policy --- Boundaries. --- Politique économique --- Frontières --- Regional economics --- International cooperation --- Economic integration --- Boundaries --- 911.37 --- Nederzettingen. Vestigingen. Landelijke, bijzondere en stedelijke vestigingen --- 911.37 Nederzettingen. Vestigingen. Landelijke, bijzondere en stedelijke vestigingen --- Agglomérations urbaines --- Régions frontalières --- Economie régionale --- Aspect économique --- Politique économique --- Frontières --- Economics --- Regional planning --- Regionalism --- Space in economics --- Cities and towns --- City government --- Municipal administration --- Municipal reform --- Municipalities --- Urban politics --- Local government --- Metropolitan government --- Municipal corporations --- Conurbations --- MAs (Metropolitan areas) --- Metropolitan statistical areas --- Urban areas --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Government --- Luxemburg --- Letzeburg --- Grand-Duché de Luxembourg --- Li︠u︡ksemburg --- Grand Duchy of Luxembourg --- Lussemburgo --- Wielkie Księstwo Luksemburga --- Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg --- Lëtzebuerg --- Grossherzogtum Luxemburg --- Luksèmburg --- Groothertogdom Luxemburg --- لوكسمبورغ --- Lūksumbūrigh --- Luxemburgo --- Gran Ducato de Luxemburgo --- Luxembôrg --- Grant-Duchâ de Luxembôrg --- Luxemburgu --- Gran Ducáu de Luxemburgu --- Lüksemburq --- Люксембург --- Li︠u︡ksemburh --- Luhemburgo --- Veliko vojvodstvo Luksemburg --- Gran Ducat de Luxemburg --- Lucembursko --- Velkovévodství lucemburské --- Lussemburgu --- Granducatu di Lussemburgu --- Lwcsembwrg --- Archddugiaeth Lwcsembwrg --- Storhertugdømmet Luxembourg --- Luksemburgi Suurhertsogiriik --- Látsębooʼ --- Λουξεμβούργο --- Louxemvourgo --- Μέγα Δουκάτο του Λουξεμβούργου --- Mega Doukato tou Louxemvourgou --- Lussembûrgh --- Granduchê ed Lussembûrgh --- Gran Ducado de Luxemburgo --- Luksemburgo --- Grandduklando Luksemburgo --- Lussembulgu --- Luxenburgo --- Luxenburgoko Dukerri Handia --- Lúksemboarch --- Gruthartochdom Lúksemboarch --- Lussemburc --- Lucsamburg --- Ard-Diúcacht Lucsamburg --- Lucsemburg --- Ard-Diucaght Lucsemburg --- Lucsambourg --- Lù-sêm-pó --- 룩셈부르크 --- Luksemburŭkʻŭ --- Lukemapuka --- Luxemburgia --- Keharyapatihan Luksemburg --- Stórhertogadæmið Lúxemborg --- Granducato di Lussemburgo --- לוקסמבורג --- הדוכסות הגדולה של לוקסמבורג --- Dukasut ha-gedolah shel Luḳsemburg --- ルクセンブルク --- Rukusenburuku --- ルクセンブルグ --- Rukusenburugu --- Economic integration. --- Luxembourg (Grand Duchy) --- Economic conditions --- 21st century --- Luxembourg (City) --- History. --- Economic policy. --- Metropolitan areas - Economic aspects - Luxembourg --- Municipal government - Luxembourg - International cooperation --- Globalization - Economic aspects - Luxembourg --- Borderlands - Luxembourg --- Luxembourg - Economic integration --- Luxembourg - Boundaries

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In the West, media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan is framed by military and political concerns, resulting in a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground, and to analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape their lives. Understanding the complexity of life along the 1,600-mile border between Afghanistan and Pakistan can help America and its European allies realign their priorities in the region to address genuine problems, rather than fabricated ones. This volume explodes Western misunderstandings by revealing a land that abounds with human agency, perpetual innovation, and vibrant complexity. Through the work of historians and social scientists, the thirteen essays here explore the real and imagined presence of the Taliban; the animated sociopolitical identities expressed through traditions like Pakistani truck decoration; Sufism's ambivalent position as an alternative to militancy; the long and contradictory history of Afghan media; and the simultaneous brutality and potential that heroin brings to women in the area. Moving past shifting conceptions of security, the authors expose the West's prevailing perspective on the region as strategic, targeted, and alarmingly dehumanizing. Under the Drones is an essential antidote to contemporary media coverage and military concerns.

Borderlands --- Islam and politics --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- Afghanistan --- Pakistan --- Dominion of Pakistan --- Bākistān --- Islamic Republic of Pakistan --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Pakistan --- Islami Jamhuriya e Pakistan --- Pākistāna --- پاکِستان --- Islāmī Jumhūrī-ye Pākistān --- باكستان --- Paquistan --- Пакістан --- Ісламская Рэспубліка Пакістан --- Пакистан --- Ислямска република Пакистан --- Isli︠a︡mska republika Pakistan --- Islamische Republik Pakistan --- Eʼeʼaahjí Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah --- Pakistani Islamivabariik --- Πακιστάν --- Ισλαμική Δημοκρατία του Πακιστάν --- Islamikē Dēmokratia tou Pakistan --- Jamhuryat Islami Pakistan --- State of Pakistan --- Islāmī Jumhūriyah Pākistān --- パキスタン --- Pakisutan --- West Pakistan (Pakistan) --- A-fu-han --- Afeganistão --- Affganistan --- Affghanistan --- Afganistan --- Afġānistān Islāmī Jumhoryat --- Afganistėn --- Afganistėn Myslimėn Respublikė --- Afghānistān Islāmī Imārat --- Afghánská islámská republika --- Afghanstan --- Afghanstan Islam Respublikaḣy --- Afhanistan --- Ăfqanıstan --- Ăfqanıstan İslam Respublikası --- Afuganisutan --- Ahyganitã --- Apganistan --- Aphganistan --- Da Afġānistān Islāmī Jumhoryat --- Democratic Republic of Afghanistan --- DRA --- Efẍanistan --- Gweriniaeth Islamaidd Affganistan --- Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan --- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan --- Islamic State of Afghanistan --- Islamikong Republika kan Apganistan --- Islamitiese Republiek van Afghanistan --- Islamska republika Afganistan --- Islamskai︠a︡ Rėspublika Afhanistan --- Isli︠a︡mska republika Afganistan --- Jamhuri-ye Islami-ye Afghanistan --- Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī-ye Afġānestān --- Jumhūrī-i Islāmī-i Afghānistān --- Republic of Afghanistan --- República Democrática de Afganistán --- Republik Islamek Afghanistan --- Tetã Islãrehegua Ahyganitã --- Афганистан --- Афганистэн --- Афганистэн Мыслимэн Республикэ --- Афганістан --- Ислямска република Афганистан --- Ісламская Рэспубліка Афганістан --- افغانستان --- جمهورى اسلامى افغانستان --- アフガニスタン --- Relations --- Politics and government.