What is border security? -- The EU-Russian border -- Existing works on the topic -- Conceptual approach -- Structure of the book -- Border security: towards conceptualization -- Border security agenda in border studies and other disciplines -- Traditional approaches -- Since the end of 1980s: borders challenged -- Practical approaches to border security -- Unilateral fencing off -- Security by common efforts: US-Canada border -- Elimination of barriers and creation of common border space: the EU experience -- "Hybrid" border security policies: the case of Russia -- A way to combine theory with practice: pragmatist-dialogical approach -- EU-Russian border(land): characteristics and representations -- EU-Russian border(land) as objective reality -- The coterminous other in mutual perceptions: acceptance and rejection -- EU and Russia: important but not reliable partners -- Russia and Finland: everything is wonderful, but -- Russia and the Baltic States: slowly fading enmity -- Russia and Poland: going hot and cold by turns -- The border conctructed: representations and projects -- Immigration as a security issue -- Smuggling and grey trade -- Border protection: strategies, achievements, and side effects.
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