The reality of the borders is associated with the history of mankind since the Neolithic agrarian revolution, carried out more than 10,000 years ago. Indeed, the process of sedentarisation of human societies, imposed the need to fix territorial limits spaces occupied on a permanent basis. To establish those limits differed simultaneously the interior space, subject to individual or collective appropriation (right to property) and exploitation of the space outside, alien and susceptible of belonging to another company or simply land of nobody (res nullius). Borders became, from its origin (geographical) spatial realities but also were realities created by human societies with decisive economic, political and cultural consequences.
Published:
Book of the Superior studies of the defence National Center (CESEDEN)
Publication Year:
2008
Author(s):
Bárbara Fernández García, José María Casado Raigón, Fernando Villena Sánchez, Fernando Fernández Fadón, Felipe Sahún, Rafael Calduch Cervera.
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Las fronteras exteriores de la Unión Europea
Articles:
“Sociodemographic borders of the European Union”, “External economic borders of the European Union”, “Outreach Europe’s borders”, “External borders of the European Union from the perspective of the security and defense”, “Cultural boundaries of the European Union”.
