Eiki Berg is Professor of International Relations at the University of Tartu. He has published widely in leading peer-reviewed journals on critical geopolitics, territoriality issues and bordering practices, and on different aspects of de facto state dynamics. He is co-editor of Routing Borders Between Territories, Discourses and Practices (Ashgate, 2003), Identity and Foreign Policy: Baltic-Russian Relations and European Integration (Ashgate, 2009), The Politics of International Interaction with De Facto States: Conceptualising Engagement without Recognition (Routledge, 2018), and co-author of De Facto States and Land-for-Peace Agreements: Territory and Recognition at Odds (Routledge, 2022). During the years 2003-2004 he served as MP in Estonian Parliament and observer to the European Parliament, EPP-ED faction, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy. In 2012, he received the National Science Award in the field of Social Sciences for the research in ‘Identities, Conflicting Self-Determination and De Facto States’.