New borders for new world orders: territorialities at the fin-de-siecle |
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| Authors: | Vladimir Kolossov John O'Loughlin |
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| Institution: | (1) Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetniy pereluk 29, 109017 Moscow, Russia;(2) Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Campus Box 487, Boulder, CO, 80309-0487, USA |
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| Abstract: | After decades of relative silence, the study of frontiers and boundaries is resuming a prominent place in political geography.
The impetus for the revival of limology (border studies) comes from the global context of a post-Cold War order, which has
led to challenges to existing political arrangements, and from the identity turn in human geography and related disciplines.
The study of frontiers and borders needs to be integrated into the main theories of the discipline. World-system theory, long
criticized for its lack of a territorial footing, offers an opportunity for extension of its three geographic scales (world-economy,
nation-state and locality) to incorporate two newly-emerging spatial dimensions at the macro-regional (bloc) and sub-national
levels. Global and geopolitical trends, as well as shifting identities at national and sub-national scales, are reviewed and
their effects on the changing scales of territoriality are reviewed. A geographic model illustrating the shifting and overlapping
nature of borders is developed based on the contemporary developments in Eastern Europe. The case of contemporary Ukraine,
as an example of state-and nation-building, shows these geopolitical changes as complex and dynamic.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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| Keywords: | Limology world-system theory territorial conflicts Ukraine Russia |
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