A multifaceted portrayal of border life, this book provides an empirical illumination of the psychological function of borders in creating (and keeping out) an imagined 'other'. It also explores practical dimensions of borders in the context of boundary transgressing resources such as water.

Explores Turkish policy towards northern Iraq from the beginning of the 1990s to the US-led invasion of Iraq and draws conclusions about the relation between nation-building and foreign policy. This work argues that there is an interplay between the protection of state borders, foreign policy practice and the construction of national identity.

President Vladimir Putin's consent after September 11th to the deployment of Western forces in Central Asia and to the US military's use of Central Asian airfields during the US-led operations in Afghanistan represented a dramatic turn in Russian Central Asian policy.