Prologue - a border is not a border. writing and reading borders in space, Eiki Berg and Henk van Houtum. Contested Politics of Security and Belonging: Post-Cold War security borders - a conceptual approach, Kari Laitinen; Borders of security in Estonia, Merje Kuus; Post-Cold War Romania - a study in the construction of security and identity, Alina Hosu; The boundaries of contested identities - Kachin and Karennni spaces in the troubled borderlands of Burma, Carl-Grundy Warr and Karin Dean. Politicizing Nature - Negotiating Boundaries of Inclusion: Environmental boundaries of inclusion, Henrik Gutzon Larsen; Hydro-borders in South Asia - geopolitical imaginations and contestations, Eva Saroch. Imagining and (Con)textualizing Bordered Space: Bridging identity and alterity - an apologia for boundaries, Jevgenia Viktorova; Representing representations - on the analysis of narratives and images along the Dutch-German border, Anke Struver; Gnawing at the edges of the state - Deleuze and Guattari and border studies, Ulrich Best. Transborder and Cross-State Investigations: The institutionalization of borders in Central and Eastern Europe - a means to what end?, Ann Kennard; Re-imagining the Scalar Fix of transborder governance - the case of the Maas-Rhein euregio, Olivier Kramsch; Stateless in South Asia - the making of the India-Bangladesh enclaves, Willem van Schendel. Epilogue: Boundary geopolitics - towards the theory of territorial lines?, David Newman.