This book focuses on northeast Sino-Russian border economies and how trans-border economies function in practice, often across great distances, despite widespre

A pioneering examination of history, current affairs, and daily life along the Russia–China border, one of the world’s least understood and most politically

This book investigates how borders in former Soviet Union territories have evolved and shifted in the thirty years since the end of the Cold War. The collapse o

Small-scale traders play a crucial role in forging Asian connectivity, forming networks and informal institutions separate from those driven by nation-states, s

While anxiety abounds in the old Cold War West that progress – whether political or economic – has been reversed, for citizens of former-socialist countries