Post-Cold War Borders

Jussi Laine is an Assistant Professor of Multidisciplinary Border Studies at the Karelian Institute of the University of Eastern Finland

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.

Introduction - Post-Cold War borders and borderscapes Jussi P. Laine, Ilkka Liikanen and James W. Scott PART ONE: REFRAMING POLITICAL SPACE IN THE EU'S EASTERN NEIGHBOURHOOD 1. Post-Cold War borders and the constitution of the international role of the European Union and the Russian Federation Ilkka Liikanen and Jeremy Smith 2. Decivilised ants and disquiet at European borders: scaling, geopolitics and everyday bordering Hans-Joachim Bürkner 3. The end of the east-west division - postponed? The rise and fall of the neighbourhood as an alternative to the Cold War spatial imaginary Ilkka Liikanen 4. Looking east and west: the shifting concepts of Russia's borders with CIS countries and the EU Vladimir Kolosov, Olga Vendina, Anton Gritsenko, Maria Zotova, Fedor Popov and Alexander Sebentsov PART TWO: REDEFINING POST-COLD WAR BORDERS 5. Media, memory, and diaspora politics in transnational public spheres Olga Davydova-Minguet 6. 'Familiar others': Russian-Finnish and Russian-Estonian borderscapes in the Russian media Olga Brednikova and Elena Nikiforova 7. Changing perceptions of the Finnish-Russian border in the post-Cold War context Miika Raudaskoski and Jussi P. Laine 8. Bulgaria's geopolitical identity and the post-Cold War international order Diana Mishkova and Tonka Kostadinova PART THREE: CHANGING SPATIAL IMAGINARIES OF BORDERING EUROPE 9. From contact zone to battlefield area: (un)real borders of (un)declared war in Eastern Ukraine, 2014-2016 Gelinada Grinchenko and Oksana Mikheieva 10. From 'between' to Europe: remapping Finland in the post-Cold War Europe Miika Raudaskoski 11. The rebirth of the concept of the Carpathian Basin in Hungarian political language after 1988 Zóltan Hájdu 12. Reconceptualising space, borders, and identity in Bulgaria: the Kosovo crisis and EU accession Diana Mishkova and Tonka Kostadinova Conclusions - On borderscapes of post-Cold War borders Jussi P. Laine and James W. Scott