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Borderlines and Borderlands: Political Oddities at the Edge of the Nation-State is an edited academic volume associated with geographers Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen, focused on the political geography of unusual international borders. Rather than treating borders as obvious lines that simply separate sovereign states, the book examines how they are produced through historical decisions, imperial projects, administrative compromises, wars, treaties, identity claims, and everyday practices. Its genre is scholarly human geography and border studies, but its case study structure makes it accessible to readers interested in international politics, nationalism, globalization, and territorial disputes. The volume uses examples such as enclaves, exclaves, corridors, contested lines, and ambiguous regions to show that national territory is often less coherent than maps suggest. Its central purpose is to use border anomalies not as curiosities, but as revealing cases that expose broader tensions in the nation-state system.