Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. I Theorizing borders : conceptual aspects of border studies -- 1 A border theory : an unattainable dream or a realistic aim for border scholars? / Anssi Paasi -- 2 Contemporary research agendas in border studies : an overview / David Newman -- 3 The mask of the border / Henk van Houtum -- 4 Borders and memory / Tatiana Zhurzhenko -- 5 Border regions as neighbourhoods / Alan K. Henrikson -- 6 The border as method : towards an analysis of political subjectivities in transmigrant spaces / Stefanie Kron -- pt. II Geopolitics : state, nation and power relations -- 7 Borders, border studies and EU enlargement / James Wesley Scott -- 8 The 'green line' of Cyprus: a contested boundary in flux / Nicos Peristianis and John C. Mavris -- 9 Post-Soviet boundaries: territoriality, identity, security, circulation / Vladimir Kolossov -- 10 Polar regions : comparing Arctic and Antarctic border debates / Lassi Heininen and Michele Zebich-Knos -- 11 Spaces, territorialities and ethnography on the Thai-, Sino- and Indo-Myanmar boundaries / Karin Dean

pt. III Border enforcement in the 21st century -- 12 The emerging politics of border management: policy and research considerations / Jason Ackleson -- 13 Building borders the hard way: enforcing North American security post 9/11 / Heather Nicol -- 14 Blurring boundaries/sharpening borders: analysing the US's use of military aviation technologies to secure international borders, 2001-2008 / Alison J. Williams -- 15 A retrospective look at the nature of national borders in Latin America / Edgardo Manero -- 16 The inter-Korean border region: 'meta-border' of the Cold War and metamorphic frontier of the peninsula / Valerie Gelezeau -- pt. IV Borders and territorial identities -- 17 The Mechanisms of Exclusion and Inclusion: National minorities in European border regions / Jan D. Markusse -- 18 The borderland existence of the Mongolian Kazakhs : boundaries and the construction of territorial belonging / Alexander C. Diener -- 19 Borders and territorial identity : Persian identity makes Iran an empire of the mind / Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh

pt. V The role of borders in a seemingly borderless world -- 20 Waiting for work : labour migration and the political economy of borders / Roos Pijpers -- 21 A cross-boundary mega city-region in China under 'two systems' : multi-level governance in the Greater Pearl River Delta / Chun Yang -- 22 Global city frontiers : Singapore's hinterland and the contested geographies of Bintan, Indonesia / Tim Bunnell, Hamzah Muzaini and James D. Sidaway -- 23 Cross-border cooperation and regional responses to NAFTA and globalization / Vera Pavlakovich-Kochi -- pt. VI Crossing borders -- 24 Everyday practices of bordering and the threatened bodies of undocumented North Korean border-crossers / Eunyoung Christina Choi -- 25 Women and migration in Asia: eroding borders, new fixities / Parvati Raghuram and Nicola Piper -- 26 Western Sahara : territoriality, border conceptions and border realities / Elisabeth Baschlin and Mohamed Sidati -- pt. VII Creating neighbourhoods -- 27 Different neighbours: interaction and cooperation at Finland's Western and Eastern borders / Heikki Eskelinen

28 Borders and neighbourhoods in the Carpatho-Pannonian area / Karoly Kocsis and Monica Maria Varadi -- 29 Transcending the national space: the institutionalization of cross-border territory in the lower Danube Euroregion / Gabriel Popescu -- pt. VIII Nature and environment -- 30 Natural resources and transnational governance / Juliet J. Fall -- 31 One decade of transfrontier conservation areas in Southern Africa / Sanette L.A. Ferreira -- 32 The delimitation of maritime boundaries : an incomplete mosaic / Clive Schofield.