Publication

This book studies contemporary rivalries and border issues sited in South-East Asia, one of the world’s most open regions. Until recently, border studies in contemporary Southeast Asia appeared as an afterthought to the politics of interstate rivalry and national consolidation as set out by post-colonial lines. Meanwhile, the physical demarcation of these boundaries lagged. Large slices of territory, on land and at sea, eluded definition or delineation. The chapters are organized by country to elicit a broad range of thought and approach, providing new ways of looking at the reality and illusion of bordered Southeast Asia.