Aggressive Conquest and Territorial Title
To current onlookers, the idea that a state can simply invade another state and claim sovereign title to parts of its territory – seems anathema. Russia’s 2014 invasion of Eastern Ukraine, and its unilateral annexation of the Crimean Peninsula that same year, have been declared as illegitimate by the U.S.

The workshop focused on borders and cross-border interactions from the perspective of people living in border regions. Its aim was to analyse various border situations after the collapse of the Soviet Union, which led to new borders but also to changes in the nature of borders in the post-Soviet space.