From Frontiers to Borders

Kerry Goettlich is Lecturer in International Security at the University of Reading. His research has appeared in journals including the American Political Science Review, the European Journal of International Relations, and International Political Sociology. He has received numerous awards for his work including the Mary Parker Follett Prize from the American Political Science Association, the Merze Tate Prize from the International Studies Association, and the Best Dissertation Award from the European International Studies Association.

• Preface; 1. The problem of colonial borders: myth and reality; 2. Modern territoriality redefined; 3. The settler colonies: property surveying scaled up; 4. British India and beyond: the orientalism of direct observation; 5. The origins of boundary studies: from natural law to modern science; 6. The Paris peace conference: the scientific frontier in practice; 7. conclusion: the continuing legacies of linear boundaries.

'In this rich and thought-provoking book, Kerry Goettlich traces the genealogy of linear borders between states back to the colonial origins of the practices of territorial delimitation and demarcation and their problematic legacies in international politics. Shifting the focus away from territoriality as but an aspect of state sovereignty, Goettlich provides a fresh and innovative take on an issue that has haunted the study of international relations for decades.' Jens Bartelson, Professor of Political Science, Lund University