Far more than (real or imaginary) lines on the ground, sea, air and space, we need to

acknowledge that boundaries, borders and frontiers are the results of diverse interactions

between humans. They are based on diferent rationales and hold diverse implications

for coexistence, in both cases contingent on specifc historical circumstances. They are

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9. Companies, cities, currencies, communities, and countries are all becoming networks: We should start thinking of collections of people—whether communities, cities, companies, or countries—as cohesive agents unto themselves, less constrained by territoriality and with different layers aligned with one another in shifting combinations.

Moving from geographical boundaries of the state to the boundaries of identity, Connolly

considers a pluralized culture’s most sensitive political crux as “the tendency by established

identities to fundamentalize what they are by demonizing or rendering needy what they

are not” (1985 194), highlighting the ambiguity of boundaries, that they bond... See more