Scholarly interest in the study of state borders and  border regions is growing in Europe, keeping pace with the remarkable  changes associated with the transformation of old borders and the  creation of new ones in the European Union and beyond over the last  fifteen years. Social scientists have increasingly examined  cross-border co-operation as one way to understand the changes which  affect European borderlands. Ironically, given the recent turn to  issues of culture and identity in the social sciences, one of the most  neglected aspects of the critical and comparative analysis of  cross-border co-operation has been culture. Culture and Cooperation in  Europe’s Borderlands, the first collection of essays to provide  multidisciplinary perspectives on these issues in European  borderlands, presents three modes of analysis of culture and  cross-border co-operation as a tentative way forward to redress this  imbalance. These overlapping perspectives, on cultures of co-operation, co-operation about culture, and the impact of culture on forms of  co-operation, are offered as possible strategies in the comparative  social science of European borderlands.    The contributions to this collection examine some or all of the following:  - Cross-border Co-operation About Culture, in such areas of culture as tradition, language use and rights, and education.  - Cross-border Co-operation And Culture, i.e., in ways in which ‘culture’ enhances or hinders economic and political co-operation across state borders, as for example, through issues of national, regional and local identity, cultural practices, and ethnic relations.  - The Culture of Co-operation, i.e., ways in which co-operation across borders creates new cultural codes, political practices, organizational cultures and transnational social and political institutions.

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