Borders in Central Europe after the Schengen agreement

239 Pages·2017·4.65 MB·English

by  Dokoupil

Tomáš Havlíček 
Milan Jeřábek
Jaroslav Dokoupil Editors
Borders in
Central Europe
After the
Schengen
Agreement
Borders in Central Europe After the Schengen
Agreement
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Tom Havl ek Milan Je bek
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Jaroslav Dokoupil
Editors
Borders in Central Europe
After the Schengen
Agreement
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Editors
TomášHavlíček Jaroslav Dokoupil
Department ofSocial Geographyand Department ofGeography
RegionalDevelopment University of West Bohemia
CharlesUniversity Plzeň
Prague Czechia
Czechia
Milan Jeřábek
Department ofGeography
MasarykUniversity
Brno
Czechia
ISBN978-3-319-63015-1 ISBN978-3-319-63016-8 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-63016-8
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The European, national, regional and local
authorities must cooperate in a spirit of
partnership and thereby contribute to solving
Europe‘s current problems. The border
regions, as areas connecting and linking
European states, are of great importance in
this context. Border regions must develop as
areas of change, challenge and growth.
K.-H. Lambertz, AEBR President, 2011
Contents
1 Introduction... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 1
Milan Jeřábek, Tomáš Havlíček and Jaroslav Dokoupil
2 Changing European Union: The Schengen Agreement.. ..... .... 15
Petr Dostál
3 Development in the Border Areas as Part of the European
Integration Process . .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 37
Jaroslav Dokoupil, Tomáš Havlíček and Milan Jeřábek
4 The Schengen Phenomenon—Fact or Fiction? .... .... ..... .... 49
Tomáš Havlíček, Milan Jeřábek and Jaroslav Dokoupil
5 Euroregions as a Platform for Cross-Border Cooperation.... .... 67
Milan Jeřábek, Tomáš Havlíček and Jaroslav Dokoupil
6 Institutionalisation of Cross-Border Cooperation:
The Role of the Association of European Border Regions.... .... 93
Martín Guillermo Ramírez
7 Boundaries and Transborder Relations:
The Case of Switzerland. ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 103
Walter Leimgruber
8 Development of the Slovak Borderlands
with an Emphasis on the Situation After Schengen:
Internal and External Borders. .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 125
Marián Halás
9 Eastern Borderland of the Baltic States as the External
Border of Schengen. .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 147
Josef Miškovský
10 Silesian Identity Across the Internal Border of the EU . ..... .... 167
Tadeusz Siwek
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11 Quality of Life and Cross-Border Relations in Selected Czech
Euroregions... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 179
Alena Matušková, Jiří Preis and Magdalena Rousová
12 Building a Cross-Border Region Using the Example
of Euroregion Silva Nortica—On the Way from Closed
to Open Borders ... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 197
Tomáš Havlíček and Veronika Klečková
13 Creating a Cross-Border Community as Part of the European
Integration Process . .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 213
František Zich
14 Conclusions: The Borderlands After Schengen—Self-sufficient,
Oscillatory and/or Transit Regions? .... .... .... .... ..... .... 229
Milan Jeřábek, Tomáš Havlíček and Jaroslav Dokoupil
Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
Tomáš Havlíček is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional
Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Czechia. His research is con-
cernedwiththegeographyofreligion,geographyofborderregionsandperipheralregions.Heisa
member of the Steering Committee of the IGU Commission Marginalization, Globalization and
RegionalandLocalResponses,andamemberoftheCommitteeoftheCzechGeographicSociety.
HeisalsoacollaboratorfortheworkgroupongeographyofreligionfortheGermanGeographical
Society. He is also interested in border areas in Europe, in particular the Czech–Austrian bor-
derland.Hehaspublishedmanyarticlesconcerningcross-bordercooperationinCentralEurope.
MilanJeřábek isAssociateProfessorattheDepartmentofGeographyatMasarykUniversityin
Brno,Czechia.Thescopeofhisresearchliesingeographyofpopulationandsettlement,regional
planning, regional development and policy, especially geography of border studies. He has led
manyprojectsdealingwiththestudyofborderandcross-bordercooperation.Heisalsoamember
of the editorial board of the book series “Geographica” published by the Czech Geographic
Society and a co-chair of the professional working group for regional development of the
Elbe/LabeEuroregion.
Jaroslav Dokoupil is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography at the Faculty of
Economics,theUniversityofWestBohemiainPlzeň.HeisamemberoftheCentreforRegional
DevelopmentResearch.Hedealswithregionalgeographyandregionalplanning.Intermsofhis
research activities, he focuses on the borderland of the Czechia, specifically on the Czech–
BavarianborderlandandonperipheralareasandEuroregionsinthecontextofEuropeanregional
policy.
Contributors
Jaroslav Dokoupil Department of Geography, University of West Bohemia,
Plzeň, Czechia
PetrDostál DepartmentofSocialGeographyandRegionalDevelopment,Charles
University, Prague, Czechia
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x EditorsandContributors
MariánHalás DepartmentofGeography,PalackýUniversityOlomouc,Olomouc,
Czechia
Tomáš Havlíček Department of Social Geography and Regional Development,
Charles University, Prague, Czechia
Milan Jeřábek Department of Geography, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
VeronikaKlečková DepartmentofSocialGeographyandRegionalDevelopment,
Charles University, Prague, Czechia
Walter Leimgruber Department of Geosciences, Geography unit, University of
Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
AlenaMatušková DepartmentofGeography,UniversityofWestBohemia,Plzeň,
Czechia
Josef Miškovský Department of Social Geography and Regional Development,
Charles University, Prague, Czechia
JiříPreis DepartmentofGeography,UniversityofWestBohemia,Plzeň,Czechia
Martín Guillermo Ramírez Association of European Border Regions (AEBR),
Berlin, Germany
Magdalena Rousová Department of Geography, University of West Bohemia,
Plzeň, Czechia
Tadeusz Siwek Department of Social Geography and Regional Development,
University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czechia
František Zich General Sociology and Sociology of Communication, University
of Finance and Administration, Prague, Czechia
Chapter 1
Introduction
Milan Jeřábek, Tomáš Havlíček and Jaroslav Dokoupil
Abstract The Schengen phenomenon is one of the most significant examples of
the process of the declining importance of states and state (national) identities as
well as the growing meaning of regional (in the concept of the Europe of regions)
andinternationalorglobalstructures.Theremovalofborderchecksandtheability
tocrossbordersanywhereresultedinasignificantchangeintheconditionsbothfor
institutions and for people living in border areas. We want to refer this changes
especially in the five model Central European border areas (Euroregions):
Elbe/Labe,Šumava/BayerischerWald-UntererInn/Mühlviertel,SilvaNortica,Bílé/
Biele Karpaty and Praděd/Pradziad. We carried out the survey with the help of
studentsworkingasinterviewersinthefieldintotalwithalmost3,300respondents.
Thisintroductorychapterpresentsthesummariesofthefollowingchaptersaswell.
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Keywords Research project Theoretical framework Border areas
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European Union Euroregions Schengen
1.1 Currently
Border areas have a specific position in the regional system of European Union
countries: their socio-economic development is usually different from inland. In
countriesoutsidetheSchengenarea,thebordersandborderareasareacontrolpoint
M.Jeřábek(&)
DepartmentofGeography,MasarykUniversity,Brno,Czechia
e-mail:[email protected]
T.Havlíček
DepartmentofSocialGeographyandRegionalDevelopment,
CharlesUniversity,Prague,Czechia
e-mail:[email protected]
J.Dokoupil
DepartmentofGeography,UniversityofWestBohemia,Plzeň,Czechia
e-mail:[email protected]
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