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