Michael Rowlands, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University College London

“The volume provides a lot of back ground information on the region and its history. Also the author shows first-hand knowledge of the current situation and its recent historical development. As a study of a border region where identities are not necessarily ‘nationalised’ but transcultural, the case provides good material for a much wider debate about borders and marginality and the value of multiple ties and crossings in the face of the intransigence of state led theories insisting on monopolies in use of force in a territory.”

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