CONTENTS BORDERS AND IDENTITIES: The symbolic significance of borders; What about Europe; The invention of the east; the invention of eastern Europe; OUTSIDE PERSPECTIVES OF EUROPE AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR: Theoretical issues; Social, political and historical perspectives: EUROPE'S BORDERS, EUROPE'S REGIONS: EASTERN EUROPE, CENTRAL EUROPE: The re-emergence of central Europe in intellectual discourse: historical background; Defining eastern Europe and central Europe; Central Europe as one of Europe's historical regions; Central Europe as a cultural or political space: EXPLORING EUROPE'S BORDERLANDS: 'THE BALKANS': ' The Balkans': imagined? Constructed? Represented?; Travelling in 'the Balkans'; Representing Albania: Edith Durham and blood vengeance in northern Albania; Rebecca West and the 'true' Yugoslavia: ALEXANDER HERZEN'S RUSSIA: BETWEEN ASIA AND EUROPE: Russia and Europe; Alexander Herzen: Russion intelligent and émigré; 'Nos amis les ennemis': westernizers versus Slavophiles; From the other shore: a Russian Voltaire: JOINING EUROPE: POLISH PARTIES AND THE EUROPEAN UNION: Poland's place in Europe; The politics of EU membership; Party Policies and European integration; The structure of Polish politics; traditions of peripherality and contemporary party politics: 'A NEW CONDITION?' EUROPEAN IDENTITIES AND THE LITERATURE OF MIGRATION: Migration and identity; Migration and settlement in France; Archimedes' harem; Migration and language: dilemma or opportunity.