“High Politics” and Everyday Practices at the Border: Emerging Communities of Practice in the High North
Journal: Global Studies Quarterly
Year: 2024

Abstract Using the concept of communities of practice, the article explores how boundary-crossing practices on borders vulnerable to states' “high politics” have developed overtime, leading to the formation of communities of doers bound by shared interests in learning and performing shared practices. Existing research on how diplomats, civilian and military staff in the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has shown how shared professional identities that cut across o