TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jaskoski,Maiah
AU  - Sotomayor,Arturo C.
AU  - Trinkunas,Harold A.
TI  - American Crossings: Border Politics in the Western Hemisphere
SN  - 9781421418315
AV  - JC323  .A447 2015 
U1  - 320.12 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Boundaries-America
KW  - Borderlands-America
KW  - Boundary disputes-America
KW  - Geopolitics-America
KW  - America-Foreign relations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Borders in the Americas: Theories and Realities -- Part I: Geopolitics of Borders -- 2. Borders, Rivalries, and the Racketeer State: An Alternative Theory to State Development in Latin America -- 3. Legalizing and Judicializing Territorial and Maritime Border Disputes in Latin America: Causes and Unintended Consequences -- 4. Political Learning through a Transgovernmental Network: Resolving the Argentine-Chilean Border Dispute during the 1990s -- Part II: National Policies for Border Security and Cross-Border Trade -- 5. Regional Peace and Unintended Consequences: The Peculiar Case of the Tri-Border Area of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay -- 6. Rivalry, Trade, and Restraint on the Colombia-Venezuela Border -- 7. Northbound "Threats" at the United States-Mexico Border: What Is Crossing Today, and Why? -- Part III: Licit and Illicit Behavior of Borderland Actors -- 8. Illicit Americas: Historical Dynamics of Smuggling in the United States' Relations with Its Neighbors -- 9. The Colombian FARC in Northern Ecuador: Borderline and Borderland Dynamics -- 10. Making Sense of Borders: Global Circulations and the Rule of Law at the Iguazú Triangle -- 11. Conclusions -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
N2  - In American Crossings, nine scholars consider the complicated modern history of borders in the Western Hemisphere, examining borders as geopolitical boundaries, key locations for internal security, spaces for international trade, and areas where national and community identities are defined. Among the provocative questions raised are: Why are Peru and Chile inclined to legalize territory disputes through the International Court of Justice, undermining their militaries? Why has economic integration in the "Tri-Border Areaof Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay increased illicit trade supporting transnational terrorist groups? And how has a weak Ecuadorian presence at the EcuadorColombia border encouraged Colombian guerrillas to enforce the international borderline?
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