The primary objective of the course is to provide students with a substantive knowledge of boundaries and borders, including concepts, theories, terminologies, perspectives, themes and methods. Students should be able to employ these concepts to identify, organize, and analyze similar (and dissimilar) relations on a local, state, national, regional and global scale.It provides a methodological framework for exploring the varied kinds of boundaries in a spatial and historical context. The students will be able to understand that the boundaries’ disputes between countries. They can also analyze current changes and reconstructions of borders and boundaries.

In the political geography of the post-cold war and after colonization world, the study of border zones becomes a cutting edge theme, while borders are restructured and obtain new contents. Border zones as new political entities, beyond or in parallel with nations, claim to participate in the resolution of international issues. Local issues, such as the environmental problems or migration increasingly demand transboundary cooperation, while the exploitation of differences in legislation of different-neighboring or non-countries obtains special interest. This course examines the political, social, cultural, economic and environmental components of the border, but especially, of border zones such as the issues of transboundary cooperation and security. The examples studied concern concrete cases from all over the world.