The Roman army in the east / David Kennedy -- Where are the frontiers now? / C.R. Whittaker -- River frontiers in the environmental psychology of the Roman world / David Braund -- Emperors, their borders and their neighbours / David Potter -- Parthia and Rome, eastern perspectives / David Kennedy -- The annexation of Arabia and imperial grand strategy / Philip Freeman -- Civic coins and imperial campaigns / Ruprecht Ziegler -- One hundred years of rebellion, the eastern army in politics, A.D. 175-272 / John Eadie -- Eusebius and the geography of Roman provinces / Benjamin Isaac -- Was there an eastern origin for the design of late roman fortifications? / Shelagh Gregory -- The Roman army as "total institution" in the Near East? : Dura-Europos as a case study / Nigel Pollard -- the laxity of Syrian legions / Everett Wheeler -- The commanders of Syrian legions (1st to 3rd c. A.D.) / Edward Dąbrowa -- North African deserts and mountains / Alan Rushworth