European Border Regions in Comparison

<p>Borders exist in almost every sphere of life. Initially borders were established in connection with kingdoms regions towns villages and cities. With nation-building they became important as a line separating two national states with different “national characteristics” narratives and myths. The term “border” has a negative connotation for being a separating line a warning signal not to cross a line between the allowed and the forbidden. The awareness of both mental and factual borders in manifold spheres of our life has made them a topic of consideration in almost all scholarly disciplines – history geography political science and many others. This book primarily incorporates an interdisciplinary and comparative approach. Historians sociologists anthropologists and political science scholars from a diverse range of European universities analyze historical as well as contemporary perceptions and perspectives concerning border regions – inside the EU between EU and non-EU European countries and between European and non-European countries.</p>