Contemporary border regimes operate through dispersed, technologically mediated, and externally delegated practices that exceed the traditional statist–cosmopolitan debate. This article argues that...

Abstract. Airspace has long been conceived through the idiom of fixed lines and settled legal doctrine, yet its operative governance bears little resemblan

Uganda’s West Nile sub-region, bordering South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, offers a critical vantage point for understanding how borders are continually produced through the governa...

This commentary extends Liu and Bennett's account of COVID-19 bordering by arguing that supply chains functioned as bordering infrastructures in their own ...

Abstract. This article advances a posthumanist framework for understanding borders through the concept of acts of motion—the reflexive processes through wh

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This essay clarifies the ‘territorial discontents' framework in response to Laine’s Beyond territorial discontents: The surprising persistence of borders in a fragmented world (2025) critique publi...

Despite post-Cold War hopes for openness, twenty-first century Europe has witnessed a resurgence of border fortifications, driven by anxieties about migration, security threats, and geopolitical te...

Despite post-Cold War hopes for openness, twenty-first century Europe has witnessed a resurgence of border fortifications, driven by anxieties about migration, security threats, and geopolitical te...

Despite post-Cold War hopes for openness, twenty-first century Europe has witnessed a resurgence of border fortifications, driven by anxieties about migration, security threats, and geopolitical te...

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This response to Castan Pinos and Radil’s territorial discontent framework argues that their geopolitical focus, while valuable, inadequately captures contemporary border resurgence in its complexi...

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has profoundly altered Finland’s security environment and prompted a historic shift in its strategic orientation. Long defined by military non-alignment and ...

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has profoundly altered Finland’s security environment and prompted a historic shift in its strategic orientation. Long defined by military non-alignment and ...

Geopolitics pervades memorialisation of borders worldwide. Border heritage sites commonly form powerful geopolitical bordering by creating myths of division and difference to serve the nation-state...

The Karelian Institute at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies invites applications for two Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) positions on the Joensuu Campus. The positions will begin o

Harri Pälviranta kävi kuvaamassa pakolaisten ei-toivottua maahanmuuttoa varten rakennettuja aitoja kolmessatoista maassa.

Borders are specific sites, but they are not static, being constantly enacted and reproduced. They often have a physical presence, but their significance stretc