Abstract
This chapter discusses the key assumptions and related practices characterizing the Westphalian culture of border control in Europe. It concentrates on the developments in the post-World War II period. The “Westphalian culture of border control” has been inextricably connected with the vicissitudes of the modern state system. The Westphalian territorial principles were formally regarded as fundamental prerequisites for both internal and international peace and stability. The Iron Curtain functioned as a tool of collective defense. It was an imposing figure in Europe's political landscape. The major threats to Westphalia emerging in the three decades after the end of World War II were kept under control. The effects of immigration, “Euro-sclerosis,” terrorism and cross-border police cooperation on the border control domain in Europe are finally elaborated.
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