Jean-Pierre Laine
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 683230 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jean-Pierre Laine |
| PRENOMES | Jean-Pierre |
| SOBRENOME | Laine |
| ASSINATURA | LAINE J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Eastern Finland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0377-5170 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Viral borders, system shocks, and the limits of territorial thinking
This commentary extends Liu and Bennett's account of COVID-19 bordering by arguing that supply chains functioned as bordering infrastructures in their own right, not merely as objects of state action. Drawing on system dynamics and post-pandemic evidence, it highlights the recursive logic of supply chain disruption, the limits of territorial frameworks, and the uneven geographies of access that pandemic governance both revealed and deepened.
Bridging the Implementation Gap
Executive summary This article analyzes how Uganda’s progressive refugee governance model encounters structural implementation barriers in the West Nile borderlands, where institutional pluralism, spatial marginality, and porous borders reshape the delivery of protection and integration. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and stakeholder interviews in Nebbi and Yumbe districts, the study examines how national frameworks are reinterpreted through l…
Fencing Off Europe
Bridging African Boundaries
Last October, a box arrived at the office of Borders in Globalization Research Laboratory containing the nearly 1,000-page tome, Bridging African Boundaries: Cross-Border Areas and Regional Integration in Comparative History and Policy Advocacy, by Professor Emeritus Anthony I. Asiwaju (Pan-African University Press, 2021). The book is a compendium of three seminal works by the author, representing a lifetime of labor and outstanding achievement. …
Border anxiety and resilience
Navigating migration challenges in Uganda’s West Nile borderlands
Refugee integration in Uganda’s West Nile borderlands reveals how progressive national policy frameworks encounter systematic implementation constraints when deployed in complex territorial contexts. This study examines the gap between Uganda’s acclaimed refugee policies and localized realities in Yumbe and Nebbi districts along borders with South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, investigating how three intersecting dynamics complicate…
Beyond territorial discontents
Geopolitics and Memorialisation of Borders
Geopolitics pervades memorialisation of borders worldwide. Border heritage sites commonly form powerful geopolitical bordering by creating myths of division and difference to serve the nation-state, and secure hegemonic narratives. Attention to multiplicity and polyphony of border memorialisation voices reveals coincidence and collision of memories and spatial orders to form resistance to the illusionary hegemonic border. Multiple temporalities m…
Resilience in the Finnish-Russian Border Region and Russia’s War against Ukraine
The article deals with people’s resilience in the Finnish-Russian border region. The authors first show how inhabitants of the EU’s longest external border slowly acquired cross-border contacts and co-operation after a long period of war between 1939 and 1945. In the later parts, using a case study, they describe how the Russian war against Ukraine has drastically changed the life of the inhabitants of the Finnish-Russian border region. Neverthel…
Border studies at 45
The Covid-19 Pandemic
Whether we talk about the global scale of the threat or focus on the disruption and potential reversal of processes and realities that we assumed immutable, the epochal significance of the COVI-19 pandemic is indisputable. Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, no other event has revived territorial borders and sent territorialist shockwaves across the world as COVID-19. The wave of contagion and fear that shadowed the discovery of the coronavirus at …
Beyond Borders
Borders remain vitally important features of our political world. Throughout the Global North, the common response to the broad challenges and the multiple overlapping crises has been to regress to state-centric thinking and nationalist agendas and revert to ad-hoc border closures. We have witnessed a consistent drive for ever stricter border and migration policies, which are not limited to the mere border management, but become an inherent part …
Understanding borders through dynamic processes
This research supports the evolution of border studies by advancing recently elaborated theoretical insights convincingly captured as borders in motion and the multiscalar nature of borders. Drawing on ongoing empirical research in Yunnan province, China, the combined perspectives tender a new approach of ‘relational motion’ to inform analyses interrogating the complex and dynamic nature of border-related phenomena occurring in, across and beyond…
Swedish Immigrants to Portugal
Although direct migration flows from Sweden to Portugal have been marginal, the actual number of citizens from Sweden living in Portugal continues to increase every year. Many Swedes appear to move to Portugal via a third country. By far the largest number of Swedish citizens permanently residing in Portugal settles on the Algarve or in the Lisbon area, generally close to their compatriots. Those settling in other parts of Portugal do so among th…
European Civic Neighbourhood
The EU's borderland between Finland and Russia provides a fascinating setting to study how different understandings of state and civil society meet, overlap, and fuse. Focusing on this border region, this study pits the conventional bilateral framework against the more recent EU one in depicting a cross‐border space for civic activity. It offers a critical perspective on the official European Neighbourhood and illustrates a complementary vision o…
The Multiscalar Production of Borders
The present geopolitical situation has made the debate on borders and their functions, significance, and symbolism more prominent than at any time since the end of the Cold War. While the various processes of globalisation have challenged the traditional border concept, the scalar model of identity and society remains primarily anchored in national space. The understanding of the state as a multiscalar construction, constantly negotiated and reco…
Association of Borderland Studies' World Conference Report
No news is good news? Making the Finnish public image of Russia
Building a Transnational Space for Action
While the field of international relations has evolved from its positivist premises—from a single means of understanding world politics towards a more nuanced and holistic approach—it still remains insufficient to understand the big picture. Despite recent efforts to broaden the field, it remains tied to great power politics and its basic unit of analysis remains the state. Independently, it is incapable of explaining the multilevelled and multis…
In search of balance
No matter how the North is demarcated, the Russian Federation constitutes a significant share. Already its mere physical size and numerous neighboring states make Russia a noteworthy player and its actions, or lack thereof, are likely to affect other countries. Accordingly, it is in the interests of these countries to try to have a say in the direction that development in Russia takes. Many European policies and instruments aimed at influencing R…
Le delta de la Menam Chao Phraya (Thailande). Un exemple d'aménagement hydraulique
Le delta de la Chao Phraya ne représente que 5 % du territoire thaïlandais. C'est pourtant un ensemble d'une importance fondamentale pour l'économie du pays. Cette fonction, la zone deltaïque la doit à toute une série de conditions naturelles favorables mais aussi à l'évolution historique. Les caractères originaux du milieu naturel, ses avantages, ses contraintes surtout, ont nécessité la mise en place d'un plan d'aménagement afin de mieux maîtri…
Debating Civil Society
The concept of civil society is back on the agenda. However, ambiguity still surrounds the concept. While there is no need to strive for a universal understanding of civil society, it is nevertheless essential to scrutinize the concept thoroughly, for what is understood by it defines largely what can be expected from it. This article conceptualizes civil society as an arena, a public space with blurred borders, where diverse societal values and i…
The Multiscalar Production of Borders
The present geopolitical situation has made the debate on borders and their functions, significance, and symbolism more prominent than at any time since the end of the Cold War. While the various processes of globalisation have challenged the traditional border concept, the scalar model of identity and society remains primarily anchored in national space. The understanding of the state as a multiscalar construction, constantly negotiated and reco…
The Covid-19 Pandemic
Whether we talk about the global scale of the threat or focus on the disruption and potential reversal of processes and realities that we assumed immutable, the epochal significance of the COVI-19 pandemic is indisputable. Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, no other event has revived territorial borders and sent territorialist shockwaves across the world as COVID-19. The wave of contagion and fear that shadowed the discovery of the coronavirus at …
Beyond Borders
Borders remain vitally important features of our political world. Throughout the Global North, the common response to the broad challenges and the multiple overlapping crises has been to regress to state-centric thinking and nationalist agendas and revert to ad-hoc border closures. We have witnessed a consistent drive for ever stricter border and migration policies, which are not limited to the mere border management, but become an inherent part …
No news is good news? Making the Finnish public image of Russia
Swedish Immigrants to Portugal
Although direct migration flows from Sweden to Portugal have been marginal, the actual number of citizens from Sweden living in Portugal continues to increase every year. Many Swedes appear to move to Portugal via a third country. By far the largest number of Swedish citizens permanently residing in Portugal settles on the Algarve or in the Lisbon area, generally close to their compatriots. Those settling in other parts of Portugal do so among th…
Understanding borders through dynamic processes
This research supports the evolution of border studies by advancing recently elaborated theoretical insights convincingly captured as borders in motion and the multiscalar nature of borders. Drawing on ongoing empirical research in Yunnan province, China, the combined perspectives tender a new approach of ‘relational motion’ to inform analyses interrogating the complex and dynamic nature of border-related phenomena occurring in, across and beyond…
Resilience in the Finnish-Russian Border Region and Russia’s War against Ukraine
The article deals with people’s resilience in the Finnish-Russian border region. The authors first show how inhabitants of the EU’s longest external border slowly acquired cross-border contacts and co-operation after a long period of war between 1939 and 1945. In the later parts, using a case study, they describe how the Russian war against Ukraine has drastically changed the life of the inhabitants of the Finnish-Russian border region. Neverthel…
Border studies at 45
Beyond territorial discontents
Building a Transnational Space for Action
While the field of international relations has evolved from its positivist premises—from a single means of understanding world politics towards a more nuanced and holistic approach—it still remains insufficient to understand the big picture. Despite recent efforts to broaden the field, it remains tied to great power politics and its basic unit of analysis remains the state. Independently, it is incapable of explaining the multilevelled and multis…
Le delta de la Menam Chao Phraya (Thailande). Un exemple d'aménagement hydraulique
Le delta de la Chao Phraya ne représente que 5 % du territoire thaïlandais. C'est pourtant un ensemble d'une importance fondamentale pour l'économie du pays. Cette fonction, la zone deltaïque la doit à toute une série de conditions naturelles favorables mais aussi à l'évolution historique. Les caractères originaux du milieu naturel, ses avantages, ses contraintes surtout, ont nécessité la mise en place d'un plan d'aménagement afin de mieux maîtri…
In search of balance
No matter how the North is demarcated, the Russian Federation constitutes a significant share. Already its mere physical size and numerous neighboring states make Russia a noteworthy player and its actions, or lack thereof, are likely to affect other countries. Accordingly, it is in the interests of these countries to try to have a say in the direction that development in Russia takes. Many European policies and instruments aimed at influencing R…
Building a Transnational Space for Action
While the field of international relations has evolved from its positivist premises—from a single means of understanding world politics towards a more nuanced and holistic approach—it still remains insufficient to understand the big picture. Despite recent efforts to broaden the field, it remains tied to great power politics and its basic unit of analysis remains the state. Independently, it is incapable of explaining the multilevelled and multis…
Association of Borderland Studies' World Conference Report
No news is good news? Making the Finnish public image of Russia
The Multiscalar Production of Borders
The present geopolitical situation has made the debate on borders and their functions, significance, and symbolism more prominent than at any time since the end of the Cold War. While the various processes of globalisation have challenged the traditional border concept, the scalar model of identity and society remains primarily anchored in national space. The understanding of the state as a multiscalar construction, constantly negotiated and reco…
European Civic Neighbourhood
The EU's borderland between Finland and Russia provides a fascinating setting to study how different understandings of state and civil society meet, overlap, and fuse. Focusing on this border region, this study pits the conventional bilateral framework against the more recent EU one in depicting a cross‐border space for civic activity. It offers a critical perspective on the official European Neighbourhood and illustrates a complementary vision o…
Understanding borders through dynamic processes
This research supports the evolution of border studies by advancing recently elaborated theoretical insights convincingly captured as borders in motion and the multiscalar nature of borders. Drawing on ongoing empirical research in Yunnan province, China, the combined perspectives tender a new approach of ‘relational motion’ to inform analyses interrogating the complex and dynamic nature of border-related phenomena occurring in, across and beyond…
Swedish Immigrants to Portugal
Although direct migration flows from Sweden to Portugal have been marginal, the actual number of citizens from Sweden living in Portugal continues to increase every year. Many Swedes appear to move to Portugal via a third country. By far the largest number of Swedish citizens permanently residing in Portugal settles on the Algarve or in the Lisbon area, generally close to their compatriots. Those settling in other parts of Portugal do so among th…
Beyond Borders
Borders remain vitally important features of our political world. Throughout the Global North, the common response to the broad challenges and the multiple overlapping crises has been to regress to state-centric thinking and nationalist agendas and revert to ad-hoc border closures. We have witnessed a consistent drive for ever stricter border and migration policies, which are not limited to the mere border management, but become an inherent part …
The Covid-19 Pandemic
Whether we talk about the global scale of the threat or focus on the disruption and potential reversal of processes and realities that we assumed immutable, the epochal significance of the COVI-19 pandemic is indisputable. Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, no other event has revived territorial borders and sent territorialist shockwaves across the world as COVID-19. The wave of contagion and fear that shadowed the discovery of the coronavirus at …
Border studies at 45
Debating Civil Society
The concept of civil society is back on the agenda. However, ambiguity still surrounds the concept. While there is no need to strive for a universal understanding of civil society, it is nevertheless essential to scrutinize the concept thoroughly, for what is understood by it defines largely what can be expected from it. This article conceptualizes civil society as an arena, a public space with blurred borders, where diverse societal values and i…
Resilience in the Finnish-Russian Border Region and Russia’s War against Ukraine
The article deals with people’s resilience in the Finnish-Russian border region. The authors first show how inhabitants of the EU’s longest external border slowly acquired cross-border contacts and co-operation after a long period of war between 1939 and 1945. In the later parts, using a case study, they describe how the Russian war against Ukraine has drastically changed the life of the inhabitants of the Finnish-Russian border region. Neverthel…
Bridging African Boundaries
Last October, a box arrived at the office of Borders in Globalization Research Laboratory containing the nearly 1,000-page tome, Bridging African Boundaries: Cross-Border Areas and Regional Integration in Comparative History and Policy Advocacy, by Professor Emeritus Anthony I. Asiwaju (Pan-African University Press, 2021). The book is a compendium of three seminal works by the author, representing a lifetime of labor and outstanding achievement. …
Border anxiety and resilience
Navigating migration challenges in Uganda’s West Nile borderlands
Refugee integration in Uganda’s West Nile borderlands reveals how progressive national policy frameworks encounter systematic implementation constraints when deployed in complex territorial contexts. This study examines the gap between Uganda’s acclaimed refugee policies and localized realities in Yumbe and Nebbi districts along borders with South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, investigating how three intersecting dynamics complicate…
Beyond territorial discontents
Geopolitics and Memorialisation of Borders
Geopolitics pervades memorialisation of borders worldwide. Border heritage sites commonly form powerful geopolitical bordering by creating myths of division and difference to serve the nation-state, and secure hegemonic narratives. Attention to multiplicity and polyphony of border memorialisation voices reveals coincidence and collision of memories and spatial orders to form resistance to the illusionary hegemonic border. Multiple temporalities m…
Viral borders, system shocks, and the limits of territorial thinking
This commentary extends Liu and Bennett's account of COVID-19 bordering by arguing that supply chains functioned as bordering infrastructures in their own right, not merely as objects of state action. Drawing on system dynamics and post-pandemic evidence, it highlights the recursive logic of supply chain disruption, the limits of territorial frameworks, and the uneven geographies of access that pandemic governance both revealed and deepened.
Bridging the Implementation Gap
Executive summary This article analyzes how Uganda’s progressive refugee governance model encounters structural implementation barriers in the West Nile borderlands, where institutional pluralism, spatial marginality, and porous borders reshape the delivery of protection and integration. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and stakeholder interviews in Nebbi and Yumbe districts, the study examines how national frameworks are reinterpreted through l…
Fencing Off Europe
Political science (15 obras) · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration (13 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Geography (10 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (9 obras) · Politics (9 obras) · Political economy (8 obras) · Economic geography (7 obras) · Law (6 obras)