The cultural relevance of the borders
The cultural relevance of the borders

Summary/Abstract: No borders for trade, borders for culture: this could be –with some exaggeration– the sum up of this tendency. If this is true, it would be an inversion of the relevance of borders in history. Borders have been –and partially are– not only a political instrument and a line in the territory with high symbolic value –signifying the whole sovereignty of a State–, but also an instrument of the State for protecting the economy. Indeed, frontiers were able to increase the prices of products coming from abroad, making difficult their access to the market y protecting on that way the autochthonous products – and probably also the vote of their producers. The recent debates on the opening of the markets under fair conditions for the agricultural products coming from “third countries” show that this function of the borders has been visible not only in the past.

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