Building fortress Europe : the Polish-Ukrainian frontier /
Author / Creator: | Follis, Karolina S. (Karolina Szmagalska-) |
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Imprint: | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012. |
Description: | 284 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Democracy, citizenship, and constitutionalism Democracy, citizenship, and constitutionalism. |
Subject: | |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8914129 |
Summary: | What happens when a region accustomed to violent shifts in borders is subjected to a new, peaceful partitioning? Has the European Union spent the last decade creating a new Iron Curtain at its fringes? Building Fortress Europe: The Polish-Ukrainian Frontier examines these questions from the perspective of the EU's new eastern external boundary. Since the Schengen Agreement in 1985, European states have worked together to create a territory free of internal borders and with heavily policed external boundaries. In 2004 those boundaries shifted east as the EU expanded to include eight postsocialist countries--including Poland but excluding neighboring Ukraine. Through an analysis of their shared frontier, Building Fortress Europe provides an ethnographic examination of the human, social, and political consequences of developing a specialized, targeted, and legally advanced border regime in the enlarged EU. |
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Physical Description: | 284 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-273) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780812244281 0812244281 |