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Issue Editors: Anna Colin Lebedev, Ioulia Shukan, Amandine Regamey, Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowskihttps://pipss.revues.org/4261Borders remain today a crucial issue across the post-Soviet space in debate over both contemporary geopolitics and historical legacies, as Russia's seizure of Crimea and the war in Ukraine's East have shown.Over the last several centuries, an inhabitant of Eastern Europe could be born in one country, grow up in another, die in a third, and yet never leave home. Shifting borders shaped not only place names, but also everyday lives and practices. Establishing, challenging, and guarding borders was inseparable from war, population exchanges, deportations, confinement, imprisonment.New borders appeared as the collapse of the Soviet Union turned administrative borders into the national borders of new states. Some of these borders have been immediately challenged by separatist and/or nationalist movements, as in Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria, Abkhasia or Chechnya. Today, migration, displacement, and minorities also pose new challenges to states and societies in the expanded European Union. A number of institutions are today involved in the borders’ enforcement and management: national force ministries, international agencies, border assistance programs. The attention paid to borders in security, economic and identity policies make these peripheral territories increasingly central.The issue will focus on borders and conflict in Imperial, Soviet and Post-Soviet contexts.Topics of investigation could include:Borders as object and result of power relations and international order Nationalism, separatism and new states State borders vs. Imperial borders vs. regional borders Borders and armed conflicts Cross-border violence Gendered practices of border enforcementsGoverning borders Governmentality of territorial limits Actors of border control Crossing and transgressing borders International cooperation and transborder policies Economy of border enforcementBorders and political communities Imagined borders, remembered and forgotten borders and their effects Internal borders Defining citizenships, shaping citizens Asylum seekers and refugees on borders Schengen Area and “Fortress Europe” Externalization of EU migration policyGuidelines for submissionThe journal will be published in three languages (French, English and Russian with a 100-word abstract in English), as a result of which most authors will be able to write in their native language. But we would like to draw your attention to the fact that articles in English will reach a much broader audience.The articles (30 000 to 50 000 characters) submitted to pipss.org for publication should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication. Each article will be submitted to double-anonymous peer review; final decisions on publication will be made by the Editorial Board.If you wish to submit an article, please first contact the Chief Editor (contact@pipss.org) and send a 100-word abstract in English. For details about the guidelines for article submission please check http://pipss.revues.org/169. The deadline for article submission is December 2016 with publication in Spring 2017. We welcome also shorter research notes (15 000 signs), interviews as well as presentation of unpublished documents. For details contact 18th issue editors mailto:contact@pipss.org.Papers dealing with other issues related to armies and power institutions in the CIS, as well as book review proposals are also welcome.Book Reviews Publishers interested in publicizing their editions, please send review copies to: Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski , CERSIPS c/° CERCEC, 190-198 av. de France 75244 Paris cedex 13.