Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 European Union conflict transformation as cross-border co-operation: Potential and limits -- Introduction -- Intergovernmental co-operation and conflict transformation -- Cross-border co-operation as conflict transformation -- Ghost borders of the national imagination -- Cross-border co-operation across the EU's 'external frontier' -- Ukraine-borderland -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Reconceptualizing European neighbourhood beyond geopolitics: Observations on eastern partnership -- Introduction -- Eastern neighbourhood and challenges to the EU's geopolitical identity -- Territorial tropes and Ukraine within 'New Cold War' scenarios -- Reconceptualizing neighbourhood: From geopolitics to engagement -- Conclusion -- Part I Russia and Ukraine -- Chapter 4 Russian perceptions of the Ukrainian crisis: From confrontation to damage limitation? -- Introduction -- Conceptual/doctrinal basis -- The Ukrainian question -- Eurasian Economic Union -- Collective Security Treaty Organization -- Shanghai Co-operation Organization -- BRICS -- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe -- Russia's relations with the West -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 A squeezed country: Ukraine between Europe and Eurasia -- A split country -- Europe or Eurasia? -- What does Russia want? -- Conclusion -- Part II Russian borders in the light of the crisis -- Chapter 6 Shifting borders: Unpredictability and strategic distrust at the Finnish-Russian border -- Introduction -- Borders as multidimensional entities -- Historical background -- Ukraine crisis and Finland -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Russia-EU borderlands after the Ukraine crisis: The case of Narva -- Introduction.

Narva: What kind of borderland? -- Discourses of normalization -- Discourses of exceptionalization and securitization -- The impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict -- Two facets of security -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Invested in Ukraine: The struggle of Lithuania against Russia over the future of Europe1 -- Introduction -- About Ukraine and the crisis -- Lithuania's solution -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Fearing the worst: A Latvian view on Russia and the conflict in Ukraine -- Introduction -- Brief history of Latvian-Russian relationships -- Latvia's official pre- and post-Maidan position towards Russia -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10 The return of geopolitics: Georgia in the shadow of Russian-Ukrainian conflict -- Introduction -- Explaining Georgian-Ukrainian strategic bonds -- Georgia's Ukraine policy: Implications for party politics -- Why the Ukraine crisis matters for Georgia -- Russian soft power in action and the risk of economic dependency -- Conclusion -- Chapter 11 Having d�ej�a vu: The perception of the Ukrainian crisis in the Republic of Moldova -- Perceptions and reactions to the Ukrainian crisis among the Moldovan political leadership -- The Ukrainian crisis and the media war in Moldova -- Ukraine and Moldova: An intertwined future? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 12 Ukraine and Russia in crisis: A Polish view -- The origins of the Polish-Soviet border -- The expulsions -- Life in a hermetic border region -- Poland and the Ukrainian-Russian war -- Conclusion -- Chapter 13 The Caspian States' perception of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia -- Introduction -- The Caspian region as an area of geopolitical rivalry1 -- The geopolitical background of the Ukrainian crisis -- Russian strategy towards former Soviet republics -- The impact of the Ukrainian crisis on the Caspian states -- Conclusion -- Part III Ukrainian-Russian conflict.

Chapter 14 Sources of popular support and opposition to the Putin regime -- Putin's approval ratings -- The values of Russian citizens -- Conclusion -- Chapter 15 Expanding religious borders?: The new influence of some old state churches: The Russian Orthodoxy -- Introduction -- Symphony and synergy: On the theological-political self-image of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) -- The transformation phase: From oppression over religious freedom to privileged status -- Autocracy, orthodoxy, national identity: Russia's 'de-secularisation from above'52 - merely a fake? -- 'De-secularisation from below'? On the laborious implementation of the Russian Orthodox religious culture -- Conclusion -- Chapter 16 Ukraine: Historical notes on reunification of the Russian lands -- An unclear area -- Kievan Rus' and Ukraine -- Rus' and the Russian lands -- Reunification -- From near abroad to Holy Russia -- Index of Persons -- Index of Places.

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