ABSTRACT
At the start of the twentieth century, Lord Curzon was moved to state that frontiers were the razor’s edge on which hung suspended the great issues of war and peace. A century later, after two world wars and a prolonged Cold War, boundaries remain a crucial concern of international relations although there has been a change in emphasis. As economic interdependence grows through globalisation, there is if anything an even greater requirement for a stable territorial order as only state power can enforce the rules.
