Abstract: As the marginal lines of political units, borders are either visible or invisible on a landscape: they have extension but no width. Sometimes they are marked only with stone tablets or they may be fortified: for example, the Roman limes against the barbarians to the North, the Magnet Line, the 38th Parallel of Korea, the Great Wall of ancient China, and the former Berlin Wall. Stemmed from the diversification of political borders, border-areas are functionally incorporated by different forms of political status, which will therefore create different operational mechanisms of their own.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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