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Gaul, Natural Frontiers, or the Hexagon: Where and What is France?
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Four Rivers, Gaul, Natural Frontiers or the Hexagon:
What and Where is France?
Part I: The Four Rivers.
Pugna pro patria; pro patria mori.
Distichs, falsely attributed to Cato
I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let’s say, 100,000 miles, their outlook could be fundamentally changed. That all-important border would be invisible, that noisy argument suddenly silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified façade that would cry out for a unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment.
Michael Collins, Astronaut.
©Hein Goemans
August 2003
Because this is a work in progress, do not cite without permission
Paper prepared for presentation at the annual American Political Science Association’s convention, in Philadelphia, PA, August 27-31 2003. For their comments on earlier versions and drafts of this project, I am very grateful to Rom Coles, Yuko Kawato, Keith Labedz, Jeffrey Legro, Erika Seeler, David Soskice, T. Camber Warren and especially Craig Koerner. Until January 2004, I can be reached at:
## email not listed ##
. After
January 2004 I will take a position at the University of Rochester.
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Four Rivers, Gaul, Natural Frontiers or the Hexagon:
What and Where is France?
Part I: The Four Rivers.
Pugna pro patria; pro patria mori.
Distichs, falsely attributed to Cato
I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from
a distance of, let’s say, 100,000 miles, their outlook could be fundamentally
changed. That all-important border would be invisible, that noisy argument
suddenly silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its
subdivisions, presenting a unified façade that would cry out for a unified
understanding, for homogeneous treatment.
Michael Collins, Astronaut.
©Hein Goemans
August 2003
Because this is a work in progress, do not cite without permission
Paper prepared for presentation at the annual American Political Science Association’s
convention, in Philadelphia, PA, August 27-31 2003. For their comments on earlier
versions and drafts of this project, I am very grateful to Rom Coles, Yuko Kawato, Keith
Labedz, Jeffrey Legro, Erika Seeler, David Soskice, T. Camber Warren and especially
Craig Koerner. Until January 2004, I can be reached at:
## email not listed ##
. After
January 2004 I will take a position at the University of Rochester.
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