Die Schriftenreihe ''Thematicon'' präsentiert Ergebnisse der interdisziplinären Forschung aus den Bereichen Kulturwissenschaft, Recht, Politologie, Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Umweltschutz und Raumordnung. Einen besonderen Schwerpunkt bilden hier Probleme der Kommunikation zwischen Kulturen und sozialen Strukturen. Das Collegium Polonicum, eine grenzüberschreitende Einrichtung der Adam-Mickiewicz-Universität Poznan und der Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), widmet sich in Forschung und Lehre dieser Problematik.

The Experiences of the 1995 Enlargement: Sweden, Finland and Austria in the European Union (Thematicon)

Politics & Social Sciences

Janczak, Jaroslaw

Politics & Government

Logos Verlag

The world today is marked by simultaneous conflicts and cooperation between cultures, regions, international organizations, states, national and ethnic groups, political parties, and other actors. Conflict is considered as unfruitful and undesired, whereby cooperation is perceived as advantageous and desirable, yet frequently difficult and time-consuming to initiate and strengthen. The analysis of the transition from conflict to cooperation is hence an invaluable source of experience that comes in useful in many cases. Both conflict and cooperation are usually concentrated in particular locations where they are most intensive and observable, and where they are the most interesting to study. These locations involve divided, partitioned or cleavaged cities. These divisions are embodied by state borders, lines of demarcation, as well as by fences and walls, but also by informal rules and invisible lines. Fragmentations within towns reflect national, ethnical, religious, linguistic, and other differences. Cases of conflict and cooperation can refer to history, concern the towns where conflict prevails, where both these forms of interaction occur, or where collaboration dominates. The aim of this publication is to analyze the processes of conflict and cooperation using cities as examples. The authors analyze case studies showing different forms and phases of conflict and cooperation concentrating in urban space. They also represent different academic disciplines and approaches, resulting in an interdisciplinary approach to conflict and cooperation in border studies. This book thus contains analyses of Belfast, Berlin, Brussels, Ceuta and Melilla, Copenhagen-Malmo, Gorizia-Nova Gorica, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Kosovo Mitrovica, Luxembourg, Narva-Ivangorod, Nicosia, Opole, Sarajevo, Slubice-Frankfurt (Oder), Szczecin, Tornio-Haparanda and Valga-Valka.

Conflict and Cooperation in Divided Cities (Thematicon)

History

De-Bordering, Re-Bordering and Symbols on the European Boundries (Thematicon)

<p>The book is devoted to borders, cross-border collaboration and cross-border integration, analyzing European border twin towns and continental integration processes as a context for the investigation. Those pairings - towns located on the border and directly neighboring each other - serve as an interesting microcosm where, on a reduced scale, continent-wide phenomena can be observed and tested. Constituting on the one hand exceptions in the territorial-political development of European states, on the other phenomena typically embodying Europe's historic territorial complexity, they are often termed 'laboratories of European integration'. This means they are forerunners of continent-wide processes, where the 'European' idea is tested in micro-scale. At the same time they challenge state boundaries, still one of the most crucial elements of sovereignty, defining the shape of the nation state. The aim of the book is to draw a picture of European integration in a down-scaled perspective by testing the cross border collaboration and integration of border twin towns. The main question raised here is how the European project is implemented on borders at the local level. It is operationalized by the secondary questions: How has the European integration process reorganized the spatial-political order, based on Westphalian principles? How do border twin towns structure their mutual relations? What is the role of the historic legacies in current collaboration and integration? Why and how do the towns integrate? And last but not least, how should the newly emerged structures crossing state boundaries be governed? The author answers these questions by testing 24 border twin towns pairs in various parts of the continent.</p>

Border Twin Towns in Europe: Cross-border Cooperation at a Local Level (Thematicon)

Europe

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