Ulrich Best

Ulrich Best is a DAAD Visiting Professor in Geography at York University’s Canadian Centre for German and European Studies. His research focuses on the critical geopolitics of Europe, cross-border cooperation, Eastern Europe. Currently he is finishing a project on the critical geopolitics of current Baltic pipeline debates and a second project on Cold-War youth meetings between the US and the USSR. Recent publications include: Transgression as a Rule. German-Polish Cross-border Cooperation, Border Discourse and EU-enlargement (Münster: Lit, 2007); The Global Economic Crisis and Regional Divides in the European Union (with Luiza Bialasiewicz, Ülle Marksoo, in: Eurasian Geography and Economics, 51/1, 2010); The invented periphery: Constructing Europe in debates about „Anglo hegemony“ in geography (In: Social Geography 4, 2009, pp. 83-91).

At CCGES, he oversaw the 2011 Transatlantic Forum “Nuclear Energy Policy in Germany and Canada” and the international workshop “Mapping Urban Space” which took place at the Centre in December 2011. In July 2012, Ulrich will be convening another workshop at the Centre entitled “Mapping Transnational Space”.

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