Publications on cross-border cooperation

Two publications on cross-border cooperation at the Hungarian-Slovak border have been published by Sara Svensson (PhD supervisee of CPS research fellow Andrew Cartwright), and Gergo Medve-Balint (formerly affiliated with CPS in the projects "Aging Populations and Land use in Rural Europe" and "Return to Europe - Reflections after 20 years of democratic renewal").

A book chapter is included in the edited volume "The Border Multiple: The practicing of borders between public policy and everyday life in a re-scaling Europe", published in September 2012 within Ashgate’s Border Regions Series, edited by Dorte Jagetic Andersen, Martin Klatt and Marie Sandberg.

Addressing and conceptualizing the changing character of borders in contemporary Europe, this book examines developments occurring in the light of European integration processes and an on-going tightening of Europe's external borders. Moreover, the book suggests new ways of investigating the nature of European borders by looking at border practices in the light of the mobility turn, and thus as dynamic, multiple, diverse and best expressed in everyday experiences of people living at and with borders, rather than focusing on static territorial divisions between states and regions at geopolitical level. It provides border scholars and researchers as well as policymakers with new empirical and theoretical evidence on the de- and re-bordering processes going on in diverse border regions in Europe, both within and outside of the EU.

More information: https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&pageSubject=2907&title_id=11331&edition_id=11681

A Hungarian-language contribution was made to the journal Észak-magyarországi Stratégiai Füzetek IX. Évf. 2012.1. (Download)

The book chapter and the article both build on fieldwork conducted in the county of Komárom-Esztergom in 2010 and deal with different aspects of local government participation in institutionalized cross-border cooperation bodies (Euroregions).