title: Waiting at Giurgiulesti Customs: Borders, Bureaucracy, and Geopolitics in between Ukraine, Moldova, and the EU
abstract: Customs and geopolitics condition one another and are produced on a transnational, national, and local scale.The Russian war in Ukraine gives this interdependency a human face in the form of thousands of lorry drivers waiting to be cleared at external EU borders.This article explores the reasons and the inherent power structure behind movement and stasis at the border triangle between Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania.Flanking the European Union, this border is a historically contested and infrastru
journal: Geopolitics