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Readers of Perspectives will hopefully have noticed that in recent issues we have instituted a new practice of supplementing our journal's long-standing four-field classification of all books under review with a fifth "theme" section of book reviews—on such topics as gender and politics, democratization, and most recently immigration politics. This addition signifies more than a change of scholarly bookkeeping or journal formatting. It represents one of many ways that we have sought to bridge and to reconfigure standard subfield and methodological divides in our profession, and to open up new and more problem-oriented ways of thinking about the thing our profession is presumably organized to study—politics.

The most common ways to present data for research, demographic, political, and other reporting purposes is by administrative unit or the unit of measure that recognizes the political boundaries and area of a country. The map shows Africa divided into nation equivalent (zero-level) units. The majority of these zero-level units represent countries that are further divided into smaller subnational (first-level) units, such as departments or states, which vary in size and number per country. ; PR ; IFPRI1; HarvestChoice; CRP2 ; EPTD; PIM ; CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)

Transcaucasian boundaries"" provides the first insights into the geopolitical dynamics in this ethnically diverse and turbulent region of the former Soviet Union. The interplay between the former controlling powers of Iran, Turkey and Russia is examined, and the conflicts in Nagorno-Karabagh, Ossetia and Abkhazia are subject to expert analysis. The roles of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia are considered in detail, their relative weakness having held back the transition towards democratic free-market entities of pluralist composition. Questions of minority rights, territorial settlement and the

Professional boundaries are the essential limits that protect a practitioner's authority and vulnerable service users and are particularly important when working with children, young people and families

In judging a boundary from a geographer's point of view many physical as well as human aspects come under consideration. Stress has shifted from one aspect of the problem to another according to the particular bias of the times.At the time of the Paris peace conferences, geographers shared the general opinion that the linguistic factor should receive the greatest consideration in determining boundaries between national states. Language was regarded as the best criterion for drawing boundaries which would recognize what was called at that date "the right of self-determination." It was a new factor in diplomatic negotiations. Shift of emphasis from physical features to cultural characteristics as bases for boundary lines reflected the popular swing toward self-determination.

This evening I am asking you to consider with me for a while the subject of international boundaries, which, by a process involving many forces, has come to have a very important position in international law. Ratzel, the great German authority in the field of political geography, said that "the mathematical precision of boundaries is a special characteristic of higher civilization; the progress of geodesy and cartography have permitted the making in Europe of political boundaries as well as geographical abstractions." I employ the term "boundary" rather than the term "frontier," for "frontier" is used in two senses: one, that of the boundary; the other, that of the zone, narrower or wider, where one state ends and another begins, in which sometimes the exact limit of that frontier has never been exactly fixed.

The core, and arguably constitutive, problem confronted by an international political theory is that of the status of borders. This paper argues that pragmatism possesses useful resources for thinking about this issue, if understood in the right way. I begin by positing pragmatism as defined by four core commitments: holism, fallibilism, anti-scepticism, and the primacy of practice. The paper then examines four ways of endowing these basic commitments with more determinate political content: anti-revisionism, social holism, Richard Rorty's `ethnocentric' conception of political philosophy, and Deweyan democratic inquiry. The article rounds off by outlining a well hedged defence of this last perspective, as both normatively attractive and capable of addressing some of the problems posed by boundaries.

Contents -- Part I: Introduction -- Nation, Migration and Kinship through Identity Categorization -- Introduction -- The Strain of Categorization and the Proliferation of Boundaries -- Embodied Nationality: Kinship and Identity among Migrants and Minorities -- Book Overview -- Bibliography -- The Perils of Reification: Identity Categories and Identity Construction in Migration Research -- Introduction -- Ethnicity -- On Groupism -- Pitfalls of Focusing Migrant Studies on Ethnic Groups -- Ancestry and the Problem of Multiple Origins -- The Invention of the Hispanics -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part II: Building the Nation through Frontiers and Classifications -- The Uninvited Migrant, the 'Autochtoon' and the 'Allochtoon' in the Netherlands -- Introduction -- The 'Others' in the Netherlands -- The Netherlands as a Country of Immigration -- Categories of Native and Foreign -- Populist Discourse and the Allochtoon -- Effects of European Integration -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The Politics of Racial Disproportionality of the Child Welfare System in New York -- Introduction -- Methodology -- How and Why the Significance of Race Emerged in the History of Child Welfare -- Technologies of Truth and the Re-appropriation of Statistics -- Difficult Conversations -- Problems of Representation: Poverty and Race -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Childbirth on Europe's Ultra-Periphery: Maternity Care, French Universalism and Equivocal Identities on the Maroni River, French Guiana -- Introduction -- Contextualizing Healthcare on the Maroni River -- Caring and Civilizing: Maternity Care on the Upper Maroni -- Caring and Controlling: Childbirth and National Identity on the Lower Maroni -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Migrant Incorporation in South Tyrol and Essentialized Local Identities -- Introduction -- Essentialized Identities in the Local Context