| Table of Contents | 
              
              
                Part I First Contact: 
                    Bringing Together the Worldwide Communities of Border Studies | 
              
              
                | From the Editors | 
                Akihiro Iwashita, Naomi Chi | 
              
              
                | <Current Trends in Border Analysis> | 
              
              
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                The State of Borders and Borderlands Studies 2009: A Historical View and a View from the Journal of Borderland Studies | 
                Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly | 
              
              
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                From Post-Modern Visions to Multi-Scale Study of Bordering: Recent Trends in European Study of Borders and Border Areas | 
                Ilkka Liikanen | 
              
              
                | <Borders in Practice> | 
              
              
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                The Scholar-Practitioner Interface in Boundary Studies | 
                Martin Pratt | 
              
              
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                How to Deal with Border Issues: A Diplomat-Practitoner's Perspective | 
                Masataka Okano | 
              
              
                | Part II Voices of the Borderlands | 
              
              
                | <Targeting the Heart of Eurasia> | 
              
              
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                Border Politics in South Asia: A Case Study of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan | 
                Mushtaq A. Kaw | 
              
              
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                Special Status of Tribal Areas (FATA): An Artificial Imperial Construct Bleeding Asia | 
                Sarfraz Khan | 
              
              
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                Areas Between Afghanistan and Pakistan and the Present Turmoil | 
                A. Ghafoor Liwal | 
              
              
                | <View from the Russian Far East> | 
              
              
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                Global and Regional Dimensions of China's Policy toward the U.S. | 
                Oleg A. Timofeev |