Bardonnet, Daniel Keywords: Borde | Delimitation | Mots clefs: Frontières | Délimitation | ABSTRACT Daniel Bardonnet recalls in the introduction to his course the proliferation of border disputes in the late seventies and early eighties. This proliferation is due to the convergence of root causes such as the break-up of ideological blocs or the post-colonial resurgence of nationalism and immediate causes such as the perspective of discovery of mineral resources in a disputed border zone. The idea of borders, …