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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.
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.
Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to
border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders,
from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at
and across the border. Accordingly, it encourages a productive
understanding of the processual, de-territorialized and dispersed
nature of borders and their ensuring regimes in the era of
globalization and transnational flows as well as showcasing border
research as an interdisciplinary field with its own academic
standing. Contemporary bordering processes and practices are
examined through the borderscapes lens to uncover important
connections between borders as a 'challenge' to national (and EU)
policies and borders as potential elements of political innovation
through conceptual (re-)framings of social, political, economic and
cultural spaces. The authors offer a nuanced and critical
re-reading and understanding of the border not as an entity to be
taken for granted, but as a place of investigation and as a
resource in terms of the construction of novel (geo)political
imaginations, social and spatial imaginaries and cultural images.
In so doing, they suggest that rethinking borders means
deconstructing the interweaving between political practices of
inclusion-exclusion and the images created to support and
communicate them on the cultural level by Western territorialist
modernity. The result is a book that proposes a wandering through a
constellation of bordering policies, discourses, practices and
images to open new possibilities for thinking, mapping, acting and
living borders under contemporary globalization.
Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to
border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders,
from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at
and across the border. Accordingly, it encourages a productive
understanding of the processual, de-territorialized and dispersed
nature of borders and their ensuring regimes in the era of
globalization and transnational flows as well as showcasing border
research as an interdisciplinary field with its own academic
standing. Contemporary bordering processes and practices are
examined through the borderscapes lens to uncover important
connections between borders as a 'challenge' to national (and EU)
policies and borders as potential elements of political innovation
through conceptual (re-)framings of social, political, economic and
cultural spaces. The authors offer a nuanced and critical
re-reading and understanding of the border not as an entity to be
taken for granted, but as a place of investigation and as a
resource in terms of the construction of novel (geo)political
imaginations, social and spatial imaginaries and cultural images.
In so doing, they suggest that rethinking borders means
deconstructing the interweaving between political practices of
inclusion-exclusion and the images created to support and
communicate them on the cultural level by Western territorialist
modernity. The result is a book that proposes a wandering through a
constellation of bordering policies, discourses, practices and
images to open new possibilities for thinking, mapping, acting and
living borders under contemporary globalization.
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