Post-Cold War Borders

Jussi Laine is an Assistant Professor of Multidisciplinary Border Studies at the Karelian Institute of the University of Eastern FinlandIlkka Liikanen is Professor and director of the VERA Centre for Russian and Border Studies at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern FinlandJames W. Scott is Professor of Regional and Border Studies for the Karelian Institute at the University of Eastern Finland

• 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

"We are all constrained by borders, but in this important new work conventional limits are deconstructed. Bringing together some leading scholars in the field, post-Cold War frontiers are pushed back and removed, allowing the authors to range widely across Eastern Europe and disciplinary boundaries. This important work does what it promises: reframe political space." — Richard Sakwa, University of Kent, UK"This rich and remarkable book explores the bordering in Europe since the end of the Cold War: the dissolution and transcendence of borders and their recent resetting, their conceptualisation and their role in political language and rhetoric strategies. The book demonstrates that borders are power." — Professor em. Bo Stråth, University of Helsinki, Finland