Andrew Davison is Professor of Political Science at Vassar College, USA.

• Preface: Working In, On, and Beyond the Imagination of the West Today Introduction I. Synopsis II. Goals and Purposes of Part One: When Words Maintain their Meanings and The World Is An Abode of War III. Goals and Purposes of Part Two: On the Fatal Boundaries IV. A Link: Storytelling as Counsel V. Overall Aims and Conclusion: Perhaps Not Crossing At All Part One: When Words Maintain Their Meanings and The World Is An Abode of War I. Conceptual Stability in a Sea of Change II. A Hermeneutic, Participatory Approach III. "To cross thy stream, broad Hellespont!" IV. Crossing for Empire, Godliness, and Glory V. Crossing as War, Part I VI. A Note on Liberation and Glory VII. Crossing for War, Part II VIII. Alternatives, Part I: Crossing in Flight IX. Alternatives, Part II: In Praise of the Medizer X. Crossing the Hellespont XI. A Tradition of Meanings Part Two: On the Fatal Boundaries I. Introduction II. The Village of Değirmenoluk III. Vayvay IV. Sakızlı Conclusion: Perhaps Not Crossing At All

‘Andrew Davison’s book is a fascinating read. It is a highly original work … the reader comes out greatly enlightened on what it means to talk about "borders." Not only does "border thinking" clearly occur, but the author also successfully manages to provide an alternative vision of how to think of a world beyond borders. … This book is contributing to the development of fulfilling and satisfying transformation of a political analysis of literature that no longer thinks through borders between different bodies of literature. This book does not teach how to "cross" meaningfully and ethically a border but rather how to erase the artificial’ — Juliette Tolay, Penn State Harrisburg, in ‘Perspectives of Politics'