O’Dowd Liam

This author's articles

• The Changing Significance of European Borders

  5 April 2005
  The starting point of this article is that the nature and functions of borders have been changing dramatically in Europe since the end of the cold war. The article aims to outline and analyse some of the key dimensions of this change. The article provides some very interesting insights into the debate on the nature of borders by delineating four different conceptual understandings of borders: borders as barriers, bridges, resources and symbols of identity.