 Frontiers are indeed the razor's edge on which hang suspended the modern issues of war or peace, of life or death to nations.  Frontiers - Page 7by Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston - 1908 - 58 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sam C. Nolutshungu - 1996 - 340 pages
...Oxford in 1 906, he uttered the statement that has since become an axiom that "frontiers [borders] are the razor's edge on which hang suspended the modern issues of war or peace, of life or death to nations."63 From the point of view of the Project on Security of Marginal Populations and this particular... | |
 | Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet - 1999 - 340 pages
...boundary commissions during his service, appreciated the frontier phenomenon. "Frontiers," he declared, "are indeed the razor's edge on which hang suspended...issues of war or peace, of life or death to nations. . . . Just as the protection of the home is the most vital care of the private citizen, so the integrity... | |
 | Colin S. Gray, Geoffrey R. Sloan - 1999 - 302 pages
...the trends towards globalization on the other. This was the period about which Lord Curzon16 spoke: 'frontiers are indeed the razor's edge on which hang suspended the modern issues of war and peace, of life or death to nations'. In a similar vein, Holditch17 noted: 'in the recent history... | |
 | Haripriya Rangan - 2000 - 292 pages
...world.' Speaking as a geographer who had explored these mountains, Lord Curzon gravely pronounced that “frontiers are indeed the razor's edge on which...issues of war or peace, of life or death to nations ... The holders of the mountains”, he observed, had an “immense advantage ... against the occupants... | |
 | Ewan W. Anderson - 2003 - 964 pages
...(13.94) 1.1 0.1 1:18.8 292.5 xiv INTRODUCTION Lord Curzon stated, in his Romanes Lecture (1907), that: Frontiers are indeed the razor's edge on which hang suspended the modern issues of war or peace . . . Over the past century, there has been a change in emphasis, but boundaries between states remain... | |
 | Allen Buchanan, Margaret Moore - 2003 - 380 pages
...For some, boundaries themselves lay at the heart of conflict. As Curzon put it in his classic study: "Frontiers are, indeed, the razor's edge on which hang suspended the modern issues of war and peace, of life or death to nations." 2 Boundaries and frontiers may indeed have been a direct cause... | |
 | Phillip G. Clampitt, Robert J. Dekoch - 2001 - 264 pages
...Kimura, Shaojun Li, and Il-Dong Koh More than ninety years ago, the British statesman Lord Curzon said: "Frontiers are indeed the razor's edge on which hang...issues of war or peace, of life or death to nations." Just as the safeguarding of home is the most important concern of the private citizen, so the security... | |
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