These papers deal with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the impact of globalization.

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the impact of globalization have brought about changes not only to the territorial configuration sovereignty of states and their boundaries, but also to traditional notions of state, boundaries, sovereignty and social order. These essays are a selection of the papers originally presented at the International Geographical Union conference on Geopolitics and Globalization in a Post-Modern World, held in Israel in 1998. The first section focuses on the wider regional and geopolitical characteristics of global reordering, with an emphasis on Eastern Europe and South Asia. The second section discusses the territorial reordering which is taking place at the level of the state as boundaries are redemarcated in line with ethno-territoral demands; as borders are transversed by the movement of peoples, information and finance; and as the lines of territorial demarcation are perceived not only in terms of their fixed characteristics but as part of a process through which regional and ethnic identities continue to be formed and reformed. Each section ends with articles which focus on literature on geopolitics and boundaries.

Globalisation and the changing world political map, David Newman, Nurit Kliot. Part 1 Geopolitics and globalisation: the worldviews of small states - a content analysis of 1995 UN
speeches, Stanley D. Brunn
ordering the "crush zone", geopolitical games in post-Cold War Eastern Europe, John O'Loughlin
economic globalisation, politics and trade policy in Ghana and Kenya, Richard Grant
geopolitical change and the Asia-Pacific - the future of new regionalism, Dennis Rumley
global stability through inequality versus peace processes through equality, Fabrizio Eva
review essay - reclaiming geopolitics - geographers strike back, Virginie Mamadouh. Part 2
Boundaries and territory -borderless worlds: problematising
discourses of deterretorialisation in global finance and digital culture, Geraoid O'Tuathail
metaphors and community on the US-Mexico border - identity, exclusion, inclusion and "Operation hold the line", Jason M. Ackleson
African boundaries and their interpreters, Maano Ramutsindela
common cause for borderland minorities? shared status among Italy's ethnic communities, Julian V. Minghi
bounding whose territory?
potential conflict between a state and a province desiring statehood, David B. Knight
seeking the common ground, Frederick W. Boal
review essay - boundaries in borderless world,
Victor Prescott.