University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law 2019 Borders Rules Beth A. Simmons University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship Part of the Human Rights Law Commons, Immigration Law Commons, International Law Commons, International Relations Commons, International Trade Law Commons, Law and Politics Commons, Law and Society Commons, National Security Law Commons, and the Transnational Law Commons Repository Citation Simmons, Beth A., "Borders Rules" (2019). Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law. 2045. https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/2045 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law by an authorized administrator of Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. 1 [FORTHCOMING: International Studies Review] Borders Rules Beth A. Simmons Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Law, Political Science and Business Ethics University of Pennsylvania 3501 Sansom St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
[email protected] Abstract: International political borders have historically performed one overriding function: the delimitation of a state’s territorial jurisdiction, but today they are sites of intense security scrutiny and law enforcement. Traditionally they were created to secure peace through territorial independence of political units. Today borders face new pressures from heightened human mobility, economic interdependence (legal and illicit), and perceived challenges from a host of nonstate threats. Research has only begun to reveal what some of these changes mean for the governance of interstate borders.