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Borders in Post-Socialist Europe: Territory, Scale, Society book cover

1st Edition

Borders in Post-Socialist Europe Territory, Scale, Society

By Tassilo Herrschel Copyright 2011
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge
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'Borders' have attracted considerable attention in public and academic debates in light of the impact of globalisation and, in Europe, the end of the divisions of the Cold War era. Instead, being inside or outside of the EU has become a major paradigmatic divide between claimed 'spheres of influence' by 'Brussels' and 'Moscow' respectively. In the aftermath of the end of communism, established... Read more
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Why Borders in Eastern Europe?; Chapter 2 Eastern Europe, ‘Transition’, and the Re-Making of Space, Spatiality and Borderness; Chapter 3 Multi-Level Bordering; Chapter 4 Virtual Territoriality and Multi-level Bordering in the ‘Virtual’ Baltic Sea Region; Chapter 5 Russia and Shifting Borders within and around the BSR; Chapter 6 Russia and Shifting Borders within and around the BSR; Chapter 7 Changing Borderness Towards a ‘Borderless’ Europe; Chapter 8 Conclusions – Towards Composite Multi-level Borderness in Europe;

Biography

Tassilo Herrschel is Reader (Associate Professor) in Urban and Regional Development in the Department of Politics and IR at the University of Westminster, UK. He is a board member of the Regional Studies Association, was Chair of the Post-Socialist Geographies Research Group of the RGS (with IBG), and served as a Member of the Commissioning Panel for the ESRC. He established, and continues to co-direct, the Centre for Urban and Regional Governance (CURG), and is a senior member of the Governance and Sustainability Programme at the University. Among his recent publications are Global Geographies of Post-socialist Transition (2007) and Cities between Globalisation and State (forthcoming)

'Europe - a phenomenon of a territory permanently shaped and reshaped by emerging and disappearing borders. Borders in Post-Socialist Europe offers an excellent account of changes of functions and meanings of borders, understood as a complex, multi-dimensional concept. For Eastern Europeans this book is not only an essential reference point but also offers some explanation of their life experience.' Iwona Sagan, University of Gdansk, Poland '... the book provides a lot of valuable information about the complex and multilevel character of borders and it can, possibly, be used as a textbook for young scholars with little background knowledge.' Slavic Review
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