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

Abstract

Contents: Part I Introduction: Aims and Outline of the Book: Wider Europe as a backdrop, James Wesley Scott. Part II Borders and the Geopolitics of EU Enlargement: Wider Europe: geopolitics of inclusion and exclusion at the EU's new external boundaries, James Wesley Scott Geopolitics of scale and cross-border cooperation in Eastern Europe: the case of the Romanian-Ukrainian-Moldovan borderlands, Gabriel Popescu The European community as a gated community: between security and selective access, Henk van Houtum and Roos Pijpers. Part III EU Enlargement and its Impact at New External Borders: Changing border situations within the context of Hungarian geopolitics, Zoltan Hajdu and Imre Nagy The impact of EU enlargement on the external and internal borders of the new neighbours: the case of Ukraine, Olga Mrinska Regional cooperation in the Ukrainian-Russian borderlands: wider Europe or post-Soviet integration?, Tatiana Zhurzhenko The new neighbourhood: a 'Constitution' for cross-border cooperation?, Ilkka Liikanen and Petri Virtanen. Part IV Evolving Cooperation Frameworks and Cross-Border Regional Development: The impact of EU enlargement on Moldovan-Romanian relationships, Alla Skvortova Euroregions along the Eastern borders of Hungary: a question of scale?, Bela Baranyi Transboundary interaction in the Hungarian-Romanian border region: a local view, Gyula Szabo and Gabor Koncz Patterns of legal and illegal employment of foreigners along the Hungarian-Ukrainian border, Istvan Balscok, and Laszlo Dancs Local and regional cross-border cooperation between Poland and Ukraine, Katarzyna Krok and Maciej Smetkowski. Part V Cross-Border Cooperation and Regional Development at the Former External Borders: Normalizing Polish-German relations: cross-border cooperation in regional development, Grzegorz Gorzelak Regional development in times of economic crisis and population loss: the case of Germany's Eastern border regionalism, Hans-Joachim Burkner Bibliography Index.