Border Games

by Andreas, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780801475405
• ISBN10: 0801475406
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

In an updated and expanded edition of his essential 2000 book about shifts in how borders are perceived and patrolled, Peter Andreas brings the story into the present day. The second edition of Border Games places the continued sharp escalation of border policing in the context of a transformed post-September 11 security environment. As Andreas demonstrates, in some ways it is still the same old border game-but more difficult to manage, with more players, played out on a bigger stage, and with higher stakes and collateral damage. Andreas continues to help readers understand the changing practice and politics of policing national boundaries in the twenty-first century. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Peter Andreas is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Blue Helmets and Black Markets, also from Cornell, coauthor of Drug War Politics and Policing the Globe, and coeditor of The Rebordering of North America and The Wall around the West.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Introduction and Background
The Escalation of Border Policing	p. 3
The Political Economy of Global Smuggling	p. 15
Policing and Smuggling Across the U.S.-Mexico Border
Creating the Clandestine Side of the Border Economy	p. 29
The Escalation of Drug Control	p. 51
The Escalation of Immigration Control	p. 85
Extensions and Conclusions
Policing the External Borders of the New Europe	p. 115
Borders Restated	p. 140
Afterword: Border Games in a New Security Context	p. 153
Index	p. 175
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Excerpts

In an updated and expanded edition of his essential 2000 book about shifts in how borders are perceived and patrolled, Peter Andreas brings the story into the present day. The second edition of Border Games places the continued sharp escalation of border policing in the context of a transformed post-September 11 security environment. As Andreas demonstrates, in some ways it is still the same old border game-but more difficult to manage, with more players, played out on a bigger stage, and with higher stakes and collateral damage. Andreas continues to help readers understand the changing practice and politics of policing national boundaries in the twenty-first century.