Professor Doris Wastl-Walter, Director of the Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland

Contents: Introduction, Doris Wastl-Walter; Part I Theorizing Borders: Conceptual Aspects of Border Studies: A border theory: an unattainable dream or a realistic aim for border scholars?, Anssi Paasi; Contemporary research agendas in border studies: an overview, David Newman; The mask of the border, Henk van Houtum; Borders and memory, Tatiana Zhurzhenko; Border regions as neighbourhoods, Alan K. Henrikson; The border as method: towards an analysis of political subjectivities in transmigrant spaces, Stefanie Kron. Part II Geopolitics: State, Nation and Power Relations: Borders, border studies and EU enlargement, James Wesley Scott; The 'green line' of Cyprus: a contested boundary in flux, Nicos Peristianis and John C. Mavris; Post-Soviet boundaries: territoriality, identity, security, circulation, Vladimir Kolossov; Polar regions - comparing Arctic and Antarctic border debates, Lassi Heininen and Michele Zebich-Knos; Spaces, territorialities and ethnography on the Thai-, Sino- and Indo-Myanmar boundaries, Karin Dean. Part III Border Enforcement in the 21st Century: The emerging politics of border management: policy and research considerations, Jason Ackleson; Building borders the hard way: enforcing North American security post 9/11, Heather Nicol; Blurring boundaries/sharpening borders: analysing the US's use of military aviation technologies to secure international borders, 2001-2008, Alison J. Williams; A retrospective look at the nature of national borders in Latin America, Edgardo Manero; The inter-Korean border region - 'meta-border' of the Cold War and metamorphic frontier of the peninsula, Valérie Gelézeau. Part IV Borders and Territorial Identities: the Mechanisms of Exclusion and Inclusion: National minorities in European border regions, Jan D. Markusse; The borderland existence of the Mongolian Kazakhs: boundaries and the construction of territorial belonging, Alexander C. Diener; Borders and territorial identity: Persian identity makes Iran an empire