ABSTRACT
Many political geographers have attempted to substitute a more cautious, empirical approach to specific territorial problems of political organization for the formulation of vast, often untested generalizations characteristic of an earlier period. The study of frontiers and boundaries is undergoing particular revaluation at the present, requiring a much wider, more sophisticated perspective than that established by earlier generations of security conscious soldier-statesmen. In physical geography the glaciologist and periglacial morphologist are actively concerned with the ice-margins, as is the biogeographer with the ecological limits of cultivation and the land sea margin. The long-term implications of implementing the Treaty of Rome may be far-reaching for the internal frontier zones within the European Economic Community. The revaluation of boundaries will have distinctive effects upon those living within each of the varied frontier zones. Some of these zones have economic and social problems aggravated by the impediments to circulation which political boundaries have by tradition imposed.
