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On the Borders of State Power:  Frontiers in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region

 

Martin Gainsborough, University of Bristol, UK

 

October 2008: 216x138: 128pp

 

Hb: 978-0-415-41465-4: £75.00

 

On The Borders of State Power explores the changing nature, meaning and significance

of international borders over time in the area referred to today as the Greater

Mekong Sub-region, incorporating Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and

China's Yunnan province.

 

An international line up of contributors examine the changing nature of borders over

time, using examples from the 15th to 21st centuries and engage with contemporary

literature on globalisation, particularly as it applies to borders and the nature of

state power. What the book finds is that there is far greater diversity in terms of

the importance of borders across time than is commonly thought. Thus, borders

commonly thought to be closed are often more open, open borders are found to be more

restricted, while pre-colonial frontiers, which are usually viewed as relatively

unimportant compared with the colonial era, are in fact found to have been more

closely governed. Looking at the contemporary period, the book shows how economic

liberalisation or so-called cooperation between the Mekong states in the post-Cold

War period has been accompanied not by the retreat of the state but rather by its

expansion, including in ways which frequently impose greatest restrictions on the

poor and marginalised.

 

Incorporating work by both historians and social scientists this book is a valuable

read for those interested in the politics, development and geography of Southeast

Asia.

 

About the Author: 

 

Martin Gainsborough is Reader in Development Politics at the University of Bristol, UK.

 

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