Data for "Rebordering Europe in times of war: the Ukraine crisis and EU boundary change"

In a ‘bordering’ analysis of political development, this article studies changes in the closure and control of the EU’s boundaries with Russia and Ukraine as well as its internal boundaries between 2013 and August 2022. It finds that the EU’s response has hitherto consisted in a regulatory process of community-building without concomitant capacity-building.

Whereas the EU has increasingly closed its boundaries with Russia, it has progressively opened its boundaries towards Ukraine. By contrast, the war so far has not had a discernible impact on the EU’s internal boundary configuration and its authority and capacity for boundary control. These preliminary findings are in line with the EU’s developmental path as a ‘regulatory state’.