Equal parts of burlesque and tragedy, this reimagining of Thomas Berger's picaresque novel not only depicted American frontier policy as brutal and genocidal but also acted as a parable of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
Potgieter was a well-to-do sheep farmer from the Tarka district of eastern Cape Colony before the vacillating frontier policy of the British caused him to opt for leaving the colony.
Emphasizing the poets' loneliness and longing for home while hinting at the pointlessness of their posts, these frontier verses are characterized by imagery of desolate landscapes, including the ruins of the now-neglected Great Wall — a direct product of Tang's frontier policy.
It is also possible that their construction had little to do with Roman frontier policy and was simply the importation of a new style by southern elites or it may have been a response by such elites to the growing threat of Rome prior to the invasion and an attempt to ally themselves, actually or symbolically, with the free north.
Aboriginal participation in a number of major revolts during the Qing era, including the Taokas-led Ta-Chia-hsi revolt of 1731 1732, ensured the Plains tribes would remain an important factor in crafting Qing frontier policy until the end of Qing rule in 1895.
But Curzon's frontier policies remain controversial at best.
Just at that period the frontier policies of the emperor Xuanzong (reigned 712 756) were providing opportunities for men such as An Lushan, his cousin An Sishun, and other soldiers of non-Chinese origin to serve in the Chinese armies.
But that has recently become impossible as the Balkan countries recently shut their borders or tightened frontier policies to people without valid travel documents.
It would be accompanied by a vow that the West would not support the rebels seeking to split Kosovo from Serbia, nor recognise a self-proclaimed "independent" Kosovo (to do so would make a nonsense of the West's no-change-of-frontiers policy in Bosnia).At the same time the West should do what it could to stabilise Macedonia (offer aid in return for decent treatment of the ethnic Albanians).
But Britain's new government, despite having an opt-out from a frontier-free policy, and some others are reluctant.
In the 19th century Tibet was a buffer between Russian imperial expansion and India's frontier defense policy.
