ABSTRACT
In this chapter I want to explore, under the current impact of warfare and racism at the heart of Europe, the possible affinity between structures of political identity and the vision of boundaries. Violence against ethnic, political, and national otherness has today reached a scale in Europe that nobody would have thought possible before 1989. The recent political changes, the increased resistance to immigration, the economic recession in the West, and the equally disastrous constructions of capitalist economies in the East have thrown the identities of many people into crisis.
