Dear Professor WHyte,
WOuld you like a review of your book in Journal of Borderlands Studies? I
would be interested to write it. Please let me know whether you can ask
the publisher to send a copy to my office address below. I would write the
review before the summer 2013.
Best regards Emmanuel.
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Dr. E. Brunet-Jailly, Ph.D.
Jean Monnet Chair, Associate Professor,
School of Public Administration,
Director European Studies Program
Co-Director of the Local Government Institute
University of Victoria, PO Box 1700 STN CSC,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 2Y2
Tel: 250 721 6418 Fax 250 721 8814
Editor Journal of Borderlands Studies (Routledge)
Currently: Visiting Professor IGA Grenoble, France
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On 2012-11-28 11:13 PM, "Brendan Whyte" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>At the risk of blowing my own trumpet, as I wrote the Burma chapter, I
>would like to bring this new book to the attention of list-members. Only
>a couple of the chapters go into much detail about boundary alignments
>and treaties, but that is mainly because many of China's boundaries are
>undetermined, in dispute, or the treaties and/or detailed maps remain
>secret (even the 50-year old 1963 Sino-Afghan boundary).
>
>Beijing's Power and China's Borders: Twenty Neighbors in Asia
>Edited by: Bruce Elleman; Stephen Kotkin; Clive Schofield
>Cloth ISBN: 978-0-7656-2763-6
>Paper ISBN: 978-0-7656-2764-3
>392pp. Maps, selected bibliography, index.
>Publication Date: October 2012.
>Description: China shares borders with 20 neighboring countries--more
>than any other country in the world. Each of the neighbors has its own
>national interests, and in some cases, that includes territorial and
>maritime jurisdictional claims in places that China also claims.
>This book brings together historians, geographers, political scientists,
>and legal scholars to examine each of China's twenty land or sea borders.
>Each chapter details the history and status of boundary setting and the
>ongoing management of transnational interactions--trade, resource
>exploitation, fishing rights, and population movements.
>Country coverage includes Afghanistan, Bhutan, Brunei, Indonesia, India,
>Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar
>(Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, The Philippines, Russia, Taiwan, Tajikistan,
>and Vietnam.
>An introduction and a concluding chapter draw out the implications of the
>book's twenty case studies and identify areas where border disputes could
>flare up in the context of China's emergence as a regional hegemon and as
>a sea power.
>http://www.mesharpe.com/mall/resultsa.asp?Title=Beijing%27s+Power+and+Chin
>a%27s+Borders%3A+Twenty+Neighbors+in+Asia
>
>Dr Brendan Whyte
>Assistant Curator of Maps
>National Library of Australia
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