Abstract
Brańka, Donaj, and Jańczak deal with the problem of space and borders in the political region spreading between the Baltic and Black seas. Starting with the conceptual considerations on territoriality, borders, and border change, they look for elements constituting spatial dynamics in the region. At the same time, however, they also try to investigate the structural characteristics of the region itself as well as the ways it is constructed and deconstructed. By testing examples of territory-based cooperation and conflict—in an environment framed by an expanding European Union, and mutual and collective interactions among single states—they not only review debordering and (re)bordering tendencies there, but also conceptualize the spatial–political meaning of this part of Europe.
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Brańka, T., Donaj, Ł., Jańczak, J. (2020). Border Processes in Contemporary Baltic–Black Sea Region: Between (Re)Bordering and Debordering. In: Bogdanova, O., Makarychev, A. (eds) Baltic-Black Sea Regionalisms. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24878-9_2
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