Eu Enlargement, Region Building and Shifting Borders of Inclusion and Exclusion

ISBN-13: 9780754645429 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 260 str.

Scott, James Wesley

Opis

The 2004 entry of 10 Central and Eastern European countries, along with Malta and Cyprus, into the EU has caused a huge shift in the EU's external boundaries. The socio-economic and political transformations that this shift has caused not only suggest new regional development opportunities, but also many potential problems and tensions. While the EU insists that enlargement will not signify 'new divisions', processes of inclusion and exclusion and the imposition of visa restrictions on non-EU citizens could pose obstacles to co-operation, conjuring fears of an emerging 'fortress Europe' that effectively divides the continent. Illustrated with case studies from Central and Eastern European border areas, this book examines capacities for region building across national borders in within the context of EU enlargement, synthesizing the various insights provided by local information and suggesting ways forward for the future development of the EU's 'Wider Europe' strategy.

Recenzje

’It is never possible to visit the same border twice; for practises at and the wider meanings of borders are continually changing. Europe has been a vanguard for such changes. Today, deepening European integration and Europe's new and prospective enlargement set fresh agendas. This collection - based on case studies from Central and Eastern Europe - charts these and will long be an essential reference point.’ James D. Sidaway, Loughborough University, UK '...the book brings valuable new insights to important aspects of EU expansion.' Journal of Contemporary European Studies

Spis treści

Part I Introduction: Aims and Outlines of the Book; Chapter 1 Wider Europe as a Backdrop, James Wesley Scott; Part II Borders and the Geopolitics of EU Enlargement; Chapter 2 Wider Europe: Geopolitics of Inclusion and Exclusion at the EU’s New External Boundaries, James Wesley Scott; Chapter 3 Geopolitics of Scale and Cross-Border Cooperation in Eastern Europe: The Case of the Romanian-Ukrainian-Moldovan Borderlands, Gabriel Popescu; Chapter 4 The European Community as a Gated Community: Between Security and Selective Access, Henk van Houtum, Roos Pijpers; Part III EU Enlargement and Its Impact at New External Borders; Chapter 5 Changing Border Situations within the Context of Hungarian Geopolitics, Zoltán Hajdú, Imre Nagy; Chapter 6 The Impact of EU Enlargement on the External and Internal Borders of the New Neighbours: The Case of Ukraine, Olga Mrinska; Chapter 7 Regional Cooperation in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands: Wider Europe or Post-Soviet Integration?, Tatiana Zhurzhenko; Chapter 8 The New Neighbourhood – a ‘Constitution’ for Cross-Border Cooperation?, Ilkka Liikanen, Petri Virtanen; Part IV Evolving Cooperation Frameworks and Cross-Border Regional Development; Chapter 9 The Impact of EU Enlargement on Moldovan-Romanian Relations, Alla Skvortova; Chapter 10 Euroregions along the Eastern Borders of Hungary: A Question of Scale?, Béla Baranyi; Chapter 11 Transboundary Interaction in the Hungarian-Romanian Border Region: A Local View, Gyula Szabó, Gábor Koncz; Chapter 12 Patterns of Legal and Illegal Employment of Foreigners along the Hungarian-Ukrainian Border, István Balcsók, László Dancs; Chapter 13 Local and Regional Cross-Border Cooperation between Poland and Ukraine, Katarzyna Krok, Maciej Sm tkowski; partV Cross-Border Cooperation and Regional Development at the Former External Borders; Chapter 14 Normalizing Polish-German Relations: Cross-Border Cooperation in Regional Development, Grzegorz Gorzelak; Chapter 15 Regional Development in Times of Econo

O autorze

Dr James Wesley Scott is from the Department of Geography at Free University of Berlin, Germany.