Subject(s): Negotible state -- Political Map -- Right-sizing and right-peopling the state -- Reshaping to resizing a failing state -- India Pakistan partition -- Power struggle in Pakistan -- Soviet legacies and elite legitimacy in the post soviet states -- Turkey's Kurdish problem -- Manufacturing identities and managing Kurds in Iraq -- Western sahara and East Timor -- Politics of down-sizing borders -- Politics, Ethnicity and territory in plural states -- Right-sizing and the alignment of states and collective identities