Borders And Boundaries

Border Communities Against Brexit protesters pose as customs officers at a rally along the border between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom on March 30th, 2019, in Newry, Ireland.

Protesters pose as customs officers at a rally along the border between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom in Ireland.

By Pacific Standard Staff

Signs mark fenced-off areas of Varosha, a quarter in the city of Famagusta, Cyprus, which until 1974 was a popular seaside resort. The buildings seen in the background are abandoned beach hotels that attracted Hollywood movie stars until the country's division.

Yiannakis Rousos offers visitors a tour of the home he still hopes to reclaim—and a glimpse of the true cost of this prolonged conflict.

By Kira Zalan

A general view of the livestock market in Hargeisa, Somaliland, on August 18th, 2018.

Journalist Joshua Keating's new book takes a hard look at what it means to be a country today.

By Brandon Tensley