Report nr 1-2007

The report deals with the strategies, perceptions about and self-perceptions of three different regions living at the same time at the center and in the periphery: Gibraltar, Jerusalem and Kaliningrad. The authors of the present report, Christopher Browning and Pertti Joenniemi, argue that choosing a hybridity approach indicates a space for compromise and opens up for possible dialogue. They offer thus a theoretical argument based on empirical evidence about avenues for solving territorial disputes. The aim is to explore how these three interstices – each of which blurs spatially and conceptually established borders and borderlines – are located in spatio-temporal terms, as well as highlighting the different logics applied in articulating what is at stake and in the search for possible solutions.