Dispatches from a Borderless World portrays societies in transition, as the progress of the global economy and the communications revolution shaters the notion of borders between people, cultures, and nations. The search for identity, both personal and national, in this new world is a recurring theme in this collection of perceptive dispatches and essays. Based on the author's extensive world travels and his columns for the Edmonton Journal, Dispatches from a Borderless World chronicles the end of old ways and traditions, and the uncertain beginnings of new ones.