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.