Border Games provides an in-depth and comparative analysis of the border policies. Required reading for anyone with an interest in U.S.-Mexico relations and the American West. - Jeff Biggers (The Bloomsbury Review) An engaging and readable book. This slim volume is recommended for all levels. (Choice) At a time when economic globalization is seen opening borders throughout the world, the boundary enforcement has intensified along the longest border between a rich and poor country, the border between the U.S.

and Mexico. Andreas offers a broad overview of smuggling immigrants and drugs into the U.S. from Mexico and intensified enforcement efforts. On a broader scale, Andreas looks at international trends in smuggling and border enforcement in Europe. (Booklist) The difficulty in policing a complex border like that between the United States and Mexico, specifically stemming the flow of illegal drugs and immigration, demonstrates, according to Peter Andreas's insightful and pathbreaking analysis, the challenge associated with globalization, diminished sovereignty, and economic integration between developed and developing countries. Andreas's insightful and rigorous study is an important contribution to the literature on globalization and transnational illicit trade. - Frank O.

Mora (American Political Science Review) This outstanding book is a much-needed addition to the literature on the policing of international boundaries. Because it is so well written and concise, it fits beautifully into political geography curricula at the undergraduate as well as at the graduate level. Hopefully the book will inspire geographers to take up questions similar to those that Peter Andreas has so capably interrogated. - Joseph Nevins (The Professional Geographer).