Martin Klatt is an Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Centre for Border Region Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg.

Birte Wassenberg is a Jean Monnet Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, University of Strasbourg, France.

This book collects eight case studies on how regional and local government and non-political stakeholders can contribute to reconciliation, peace-building and cooperation across borders. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of Regional & Federal Studies.

1. Secondary foreign policy: Can local and regional cross-border cooperation function as a tool for peace-building and reconciliation? Martin Klatt and Birte Wassenberg 2. Secondary foreign policy as a peace-building tool: A European model? The contribution of cross-border cooperation to reconciliation and stability in Europe Birte Wassenberg 3. Minorities as secondary foreign policy agents in peace-building and reconciliation? The case of Denmark and Germany Martin Klatt 4. Secondary foreign policy activities in Third sector cross-border cooperation as conflict transformation in the European Union: The cases of the Basque and Irish borderscapes Cathal McCall and Xabier Itçaina 5. Reconciliation through Europeanization: Secondary foreign policy in the German-Polish borderlands El¿bieta Opi¿owska 6. Cross-border cooperation as a reconciliation tool: Example from the East Czech-Polish borders Hynek Böhm and Emil Drápela 7. 'Secondary foreign policy' through the prism of cross-border governance in the US-Canada Pacific Northwest border region Bruno Dupeyron 8. States, locals and cross-border cooperation in Kashmir: Is secondary foreign policy in making in South Asia?