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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. The power of borders
emerges not only from their institutional and legal nature but also
from their symbolic and identity-forming significance. This
innovative Research Agenda uncovers links between different levels
of border-making processes, or bordering, from the political to the
cognitive, and connects everyday processes and experiences of
border-making to the wider social world. Grounded in their original
research, contributors offer a variety of discussions on future
directions for border studies, including two areas which may prove
particularly fruitful; firstly, the question of the broader
political salience of borders and secondly, the ways in which the
border studies paradigm increasingly connects ontological and
ethical questions to processes of border-making. Taken together,
these address the question of how everyday bordering practices and
discourses can be productively linked to different aspects of
social relations. This timely book will be an invigorating read for
those studying borders across a wide range of disciplines including
human geography, political science, sociology, anthropology,
history, international law as well as the humanities, notably art,
media studies and philosophy.
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. The power of borders
emerges not only from their institutional and legal nature but also
from their symbolic and identity-forming significance. This
innovative Research Agenda uncovers links between different levels
of border-making processes, or bordering, from the political to the
cognitive, and connects everyday processes and experiences of
border-making to the wider social world. Grounded in their original
research, contributors offer a variety of discussions on future
directions for border studies, including two areas which may prove
particularly fruitful; firstly, the question of the broader
political salience of borders and secondly, the ways in which the
border studies paradigm increasingly connects ontological and
ethical questions to processes of border-making. Taken together,
these address the question of how everyday bordering practices and
discourses can be productively linked to different aspects of
social relations. This timely book will be an invigorating read for
those studying borders across a wide range of disciplines including
human geography, political science, sociology, anthropology,
history, international law as well as the humanities, notably art,
media studies and philosophy.
Place-based strategies are widely discussed as powerful instruments
of economic and community development. In terms of European debate,
the local level - cities, towns, neighbourhoods - has recently come
under increased scrutiny as a potentially decisive actor in
Cohesion Policy. As understandings of socio-spatial and economic
cohesion evolve, the idea that spatial justice requires a concerted
policy response has gained currency. Given the political, social
and economic salience of locale, this book explores the potential
contribution of place-based initiative to more balanced and
equitable socio-economic development, as well as growth in a more
general sense. The overall architecture of the book and the
individual chapters address place-based perspectives from a number
of vantage points, including the potential of achieving greater
effectiveness in EU and national level development policies,
through a greater local level and citizens role and concrete
actions for achieving this; enhancing decision-making autonomy by
pooling local capacities for action; linking relative local
autonomy to development outcomes and viewing spatial justice as a
concept and policy goal. The book highlights, though the use of
case studies, how practicable and actionable knowledge can be
gained from local development experiences. This book targets
researchers, practitioners and students who seek to learn more
about place-based based development and its potentials. Its
cross-cutting focus on spatial justice and place will ensure the
book is of wider international interest.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were high hopes of
Russia's "modernisation" and rapid political and economic
integration with the EU. But now, given its own policies of
national development, Russia appears to have limits to
integration'. Today, much European political discourse again evokes
East/West civilisational divides and antagonistic geopolitical
interests in EU-Russia relations. This book provides a carefully
researched and timely analysis of this complex relationship and
examines whether this turn in public debate corresponds to
local-level experience -- particularly in border areas where the
European Union and Russian Federation meet. This multidisciplinary
book - covering geopolitics, international relations, political
economy and human geography - argues that the concept limits to
integration' has its roots in geopolitical reasoning; it examines
how Russian regional actors have adapted to the challenges of
simultaneous internal and external integration, and what kind of
strategies they have developed in order to meet the pressures
coming across the border and from the federal centre. It analyses
the reconstitution of Northwest Russia as an economic, social and
political space, and the role cross-border interaction has had in
this process. The book illustrates how a comparative regional
perspective offers insights into the EU-Russia relationship: even
if geopolitics sets certain constraints to co-operation, and market
processes have led to conflict in cross-border interaction, several
actors have been able to take initiative and create space for
increasing cross-border integration in the conditions of Russia's
internal reconstitution.
This book critically analyses the changing EU-Russian security
environment in the wake of the Ukraine crisis, with a particular
focus on northern Europe where the EU and the Russian Federation
share a common border. Russian involvement in conflict situations
in the EU’s immediate neighbourhood has drastically impacted the
European security environment, leading to a resurgence of
competitive great power relations. The book uses the EU-Russia
interface at the borders of Finland and the European North as a
prism through which interwoven external and internal security
challenges can be explored. Security is considered in the broadest
sense of the term, as the authors consider how the security
environment is reflected politically, socially and culturally
within European societies. The book analyses changing political
language and concepts, institutional preparedness, border
governance, human security, migration and wider challenges to
societal resilience. Ultimately, the book investigates into
Finland’s preparedness to address new global security challenges
and to find solutions to them on an everyday level. This book will
be an important guide for researchers and upper-level students of
security, border studies, Russian and European studies, as well as
to policy makers looking to develop a wider, contextualized
understanding of the challenges to stability and security in
different parts of Europe.
This book critically analyses the changing EU-Russian security
environment in the wake of the Ukraine crisis, with a particular
focus on northern Europe where the EU and the Russian Federation
share a common border. Russian involvement in conflict situations
in the EU's immediate neighbourhood has drastically impacted the
European security environment, leading to a resurgence of
competitive great power relations. The book uses the EU-Russia
interface at the borders of Finland and the European North as a
prism through which interwoven external and internal security
challenges can be explored. Security is considered in the broadest
sense of the term, as the authors consider how the security
environment is reflected politically, socially and culturally
within European societies. The book analyses changing political
language and concepts, institutional preparedness, border
governance, human security, migration and wider challenges to
societal resilience. Ultimately, the book investigates into
Finland's preparedness to address new global security challenges
and to find solutions to them on an everyday level. This book will
be an important guide for researchers and upper-level students of
security, border studies, Russian and European studies, as well as
to policy makers looking to develop a wider, contextualized
understanding of the challenges to stability and security in
different parts of Europe.
In the aftermath of the Ukraine crises, borders within the wider
post-Cold War and post-Soviet context have become a key issue for
international relations and public political debate. These borders
are frequently viewed in terms of military preparedness and
confrontation, but behind armed territorial conflicts there has
been a broader shift in the regional balance of power and
sovereignty. This book explores border conflicts in the EU's
eastern neighbourhood via a detailed focus on state power and
sovereignty, set in the context of post-Cold war politics and
international relations. By identifying changing definitions of
sovereignty and political space the authors highlight competing
strategies of legitimising and challenging borders that have
emerged as a result of geopolitical transformations of the last
three decades. This book uses comparative studies to examine
country specific variation in border negotiation and conflict, and
pays close attention to shifts in political debates that have taken
place between the end of State Socialism, the collapse of the
Soviet Union and the outbreak of the Ukraine crises. From this
angle, Post-Cold War Borders sheds new light on change and
variation in the political rhetoric of the EU, the Russian
Federation, Ukraine and neighbouring EU member countries.
Ultimately, the book aims to provide a new interpretation of
changes in international order and how they relate to shifting
concepts of sovereignty and territoriality in post-Cold war Europe.
Shedding new light on negotiation and conflict over post-Soviet
borders, this book will be of interest to students, researchers and
policy makers in the fields of Russian and East European studies,
international relations, geography, border studies and politics.
The collapse of the Soviet Union has had profound and long-lasting
impacts on the societies of Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and
Central Asia, impacts which are not yet fully worked through:
changes in state-society relations, a comprehensive reconfiguration
of political, economic and social ties, the resurgence of regional
conflicts "frozen" during the Soviet period, and new migration
patterns both towards Russia and the European Union. At the same
time the EU has emerged as an important player in the region,
formulating its European Neighbourhood Policy, and engaging
neighbouring states in a process of cross-border regional
co-operation. This book explores a wide range of complex and
contested questions related to borders, security and migration in
the emerging "European Neighbourhood" which includes countries of
the Caucasus and Central Asia as well as the countries which
immediately border the EU. Issues discussed include new forms of
regional and cross-border co-operation, new patterns of migration,
and the potential role of the EU as a stabilizing external force.
The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0
license.
Bringing together comparative case studies from Central Europe and
South America, this book focuses on 'new' regions - regions created
as political projects of modernization and 're-scaling'. Through
this approach it de-codes 'New Regionalism' in terms of its
contributions to institutional change, while acknowledging its
contested nature and contradictions. It questions whether these
regions are merely a strategy of neo-liberal adjustment to changing
political and economic conditions, or whether they are indicative
of true reform, greater citizen participation and empowerment. It
assesses whether these regions are really representing something
new or whether they are a reconfiguration of traditional power
relationships. It provides a timely critical analysis of
'region-building' and the extent to which national processes of
decentralization and sub-national processes of regionalism can
enhance the effectiveness and responsiveness of governance.
In the aftermath of the Ukraine crises, borders within the wider
post-Cold War and post-Soviet context have become a key issue for
international relations and public political debate. These borders
are frequently viewed in terms of military preparedness and
confrontation, but behind armed territorial conflicts there has
been a broader shift in the regional balance of power and
sovereignty. This book explores border conflicts in the EU's
eastern neighbourhood via a detailed focus on state power and
sovereignty, set in the context of post-Cold war politics and
international relations. By identifying changing definitions of
sovereignty and political space the authors highlight competing
strategies of legitimising and challenging borders that have
emerged as a result of geopolitical transformations of the last
three decades. This book uses comparative studies to examine
country specific variation in border negotiation and conflict, and
pays close attention to shifts in political debates that have taken
place between the end of State Socialism, the collapse of the
Soviet Union and the outbreak of the Ukraine crises. From this
angle, Post-Cold War Borders sheds new light on change and
variation in the political rhetoric of the EU, the Russian
Federation, Ukraine and neighbouring EU member countries.
Ultimately, the book aims to provide a new interpretation of
changes in international order and how they relate to shifting
concepts of sovereignty and territoriality in post-Cold war Europe.
Shedding new light on negotiation and conflict over post-Soviet
borders, this book will be of interest to students, researchers and
policy makers in the fields of Russian and East European studies,
international relations, geography, border studies and politics.
Bringing together comparative case studies from Central Europe and
South America, this book focuses on 'new' regions - regions created
as political projects of modernization and 're-scaling'. Through
this approach it de-codes 'New Regionalism' in terms of its
contributions to institutional change, while acknowledging its
contested nature and contradictions. It questions whether these
regions are merely a strategy of neo-liberal adjustment to changing
political and economic conditions, or whether they are indicative
of true reform, greater citizen participation and empowerment. It
assesses whether these regions are really representing something
new or whether they are a reconfiguration of traditional power
relationships. It provides a timely critical analysis of
'region-building' and the extent to which national processes of
decentralization and sub-national processes of regionalism can
enhance the effectiveness and responsiveness of governance.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were high hopes of
Russia's "modernisation" and rapid political and economic
integration with the EU. But now, given its own policies of
national development, Russia appears to have 'limits to
integration'. Today, much European political discourse again evokes
East/West civilisational divides and antagonistic geopolitical
interests in EU-Russia relations. This book provides a carefully
researched and timely analysis of this complex relationship and
examines whether this turn in public debate corresponds to
local-level experience - particularly in border areas where the
European Union and Russian Federation meet. This multidisciplinary
book - covering geopolitics, international relations, political
economy and human geography - argues that the concept 'limits to
integration' has its roots in geopolitical reasoning; it examines
how Russian regional actors have adapted to the challenges of
simultaneous internal and external integration, and what kind of
strategies they have developed in order to meet the pressures
coming across the border and from the federal centre. It analyses
the reconstitution of Northwest Russia as an economic, social and
political space, and the role cross-border interaction has had in
this process. The book illustrates how a comparative regional
perspective offers insights into the EU-Russia relationship: even
if geopolitics sets certain constraints to co-operation, and market
processes have led to conflict in cross-border interaction, several
actors have been able to take initiative and create space for
increasing cross-border integration in the conditions of Russia's
internal reconstitution.
The collapse of the Soviet Union has had profound and long-lasting
impacts on the societies of Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and
Central Asia, impacts which are not yet fully worked through:
changes in state-society relations, a comprehensive reconfiguration
of political, economic and social ties, the resurgence of regional
conflicts "frozen" during the Soviet period, and new migration
patterns both towards Russia and the European Union. At the same
time the EU has emerged as an important player in the region,
formulating its European Neighbourhood Policy, and engaging
neighbouring states in a process of cross-border regional
co-operation. This book explores a wide range of complex and
contested questions related to borders, security and migration in
the emerging "European Neighbourhood" which includes countries of
the Caucasus and Central Asia as well as the countries which
immediately border the EU. Issues discussed include new forms of
regional and cross-border co-operation, new patterns of migration,
and the potential role of the EU as a stabilizing external force.
The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0
license.
When everyone knows your name, does it make sense to join the ranks
of those who know everything about everyone? It does if you are a
traitor to everyone who ever loved or looked up to you. Learn about
the inner workings of the Specialized Homeland and Overseas
Protectorate, also known by the most feared acronym in the world,
The Shop. Witness how agents are brainwashed into following
whatever orders they are given. Discover how the general public is
manipulated into assimilating, via exploitation of an altered past,
believing that everything that occurred before The Shop was
significantly worse. And showing how The Shop handled topics such
as a National Sales Tax, Electoral College, Abortion, and Welfare
and Immigration reforms which split the country pre-Shop. When a
small-town athletic hero drops a promising professional football
career to become an agent, he turns his back on everything that
everyone ever dreamt of for him. Follow Alec J. Tearson as he
becomes Judas, a rising star in the ranks of this governmental
juggernaut. As we trail this enterprising young man, he makes
friends with an artificially intelligent entity as well as the most
secretive of the elite, The Four, and is trained by a tattooed
Gypsy. Can he rise above his quisling status and save the lives of
millions of Americans? Or will he stay a traitor to all men?
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