Sabine von Löwis is a senior researcher and head of the 'Conflict Dynamics and Border Regions' research cluster at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin, Germany.

Beate Eschment is a Central Asia specialist and researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin, Germany.

Part 1: Dynamics of Bordering in the Post-Soviet Space 1. Dynamics of Bordering in the Post-Soviet Space over the Last 30 YearsBeate Eschment, Ketevan Kutsishvili, Sabine von Löwis2. Between the 'Opening to the West' and the Trauma of Re-Bordering: Towards a Genealogy of Post-Soviet State Border StudiesTatiana Zhurzhenko [...] Territorial Challenge in the Early Soviet StateStephan Rindlisbacher4. Dialoguing Borders in the Post-Soviet Space through Citizen Science - Ukrainian Borderland Perspectives Johanna Jaschik, Machteld Venken Part 2: Western part 5. Within and Across Borders: Trust and Distrust in Russia's Exclave of Kaliningrad Rita Sanders6. Transnistria: The Everyday of a De Facto Border Mikhail I. Klyuchnikov, Simon G. Pavlyuk, Nikita L. Turo Part 3: South Caucasus 7. Experiencing the Border, Encountering the State: The Ingiloy at the Azerbajani-Georgian Borderland Nino Aivazhvili-Gehne 8. Borderisation of South Ossetia: The Perspective of the Border Population Ariane Bachelet 9. Connected and Disconnected by the Border: The Shaping of the Turkish-Georgian Borderland Giorgi Cheishvili Part 4: Central Asia 10. Rethinking the Meaning of Neighbourhood: The Transformation of the Fergana Valley's Transborder Infrastructure Asel Murzakulova 11. Integration vs Disintegration: State Borders and Border Conflicts in the Isfara Valley Saodat Olimova, Muzaffar Olimov 12. Post-Soviet Decline or China-Induced Prosperity? Agricultural and Socio-Economic Change in the Kazakhstan-China Borderlands Henryk Alff