Bettina Bruns Editor

Bettina Bruns is Schumpeter Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany. She is head of the project 'Within the Ring of Secure Neighbours'. Her research interests include borders, migration, informal economies and ethnographic methods. 
Dorit Happ is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany. Her research interests cover EU foreign policy, regional development in Belarus and Ukraine, and migration flows and their implications for cultural and spatial identities. 
Helga Zichner is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany. Her research interests focus regionally on Romania and Moldova and thematically on questions of trust and civil society in general, and the societal implications of Moldova's integration into EU structures.