Abstract
Introduction Part I: Central and Eastern Europe: The Dynamics of Development and Policy Responses 1. The Puzzles of Convergence: Europe's Economic History in the 20th Century - Witold OrACowski 2. The Competitiveness of Central and Eastern European Countries: An Analysis of the Legal Environment - Gyongyi Csuka 3. Regional Development Dynamics in Central and Eastern European Countries - Grzegorz Gorzelak and Maciej SmA'tkowski 4. Challenges for National Regional Policies in the New Member States - JiA'i BlaA ek and Marie MaceA!kova 5. Policy Lessons from the Reconstruction of East Germany - The Former German Democratic Republic - Wendelin Strubelt Part II: Metropolises Of Central And Eastern Europe: New Competitors Or Secondary Nodes Of Global Networks 6. The State of European Cities and the Positions of New Member States - Jan Maarten De Vet 7. Central and Eastern European Urban Regions and the Knowledge Economy - Hans Joachim Kujath 8. Metropolitan Functions of Warsaw, Prague and Budapest - Katarzyna A. KuAa-Czajkowska 9. Spatial Planning and City Networks in Economic Development: A Critique of the Polish National Development Strategy - Peter J. Taylor Part III: Border Location: An Impediment Or Opportunity For Regional Development 10. Economic Geography and European Integration: The Effects on he EU External Border Regions - George Petrakos and Lefteris Topaloglou 11. The European Union And Borders of Inclusion and Exclusion - James Wesley Scott 12. The Former Iron Curtain and the New Eastern External Border: The Impact on Spatial Development - Dora Illes 13. International Communications and Borders Regions: Transcending the Problem of Scale On The Boundary Between Russia And The EU - Vladimir Kolossov Part IV: Central And Eastern Europe And The Eu Cohesion Policy Reforms: A Source Of Change Or A Defender Of The Status Quo? 14. Renewing EU Cohesion Policy - John Bachtler 15. EU Cohesion Policy: A Decline behind the Horizon? - Marek W Kozak, PaweAC Opala and PaweAC Samecki 16. Eu Cohesion Policy and the Peripheries of the New Member States - Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse Conclusions
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