Borders in Central Europe After the Schengen Agreement

Tomáš Havlíček is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science at the Charles University in Prague, Czechia. His research is concerned with the geography of border and peripheral regions, geography of religion and cultural geography. He is member of the main committee of Czech Geographic Society. He is also collaborator of the workgroup on geography of religion by the German Geographical Society. He is interested also in border areas in Europe and in particular the Czech-Austrian borderland. He has published many articles concerning cross-border cooperation in Central Europe.Milan Jeřábek is Associated Professor at the Department of Geography at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia. The scope of his research lies in Geography of Population and Settlement, Regional Planning, Regional Development and policy, especially Geography of Border Studies. He has led many projects dealing with the study of border and cross-border cooperation. He is also a member of the editorial board of the book series “Geographica” published by the Czech Geographic Society and a co-chair of professional working group for regional development of the Elbe/Labe Euroregion. Jaroslav Dokoupil is Associated Professor at the Department of Geography at the Faculty of Economics at the University of West Bohemia in Plzeň. He is a member of the Centre for Regional Development Research. He deals with regional geography and regional planning. In terms of his research activities, he focuses on the borderland of Czechia, specifically on the Czech-Bavarian borderland and on peripheral areas and Euroregions in the context of European regional policy.

• Introduction (Milan  Jeřábek).- Part I: European Integration, Borderlands and Schengen.- Chapter 1. Changing European Union: the Schengen Agreement (Petr Dostal).-  Chapter 2. The Development of Borderlands as a Part of European Process of Integration (Jaroslav Dokoupil).- Chapter 3. Phenomenon of Schengen – Fact or Fiction? (Tomáš Havlíček).- Chapter 4. Euroregions as a Platform for Cross-Border Cooperation (Milan  Jeřábek).- Chapter  5. Institutionalisation of Cross-Border Cooperation: the Role of the Association of European Border regions (Martín Guillermo Ramirez).- Part II: Case Studies - Internal and External Schengen Borders.- Chapter 6. The Example of Swiss Borderland with a Focus on Euregio Basiliensis/Tri Rhena (DE/FR/CH) (Walter Leimgruber).- Chapter 7. Development of the Slovak Borderlands with an Emphasis on the Situation after Schengen: internal and external borders (Marian Halás).- Chapter 8. Eastern Borderland of the Baltic States as the External Border of Schengen (Josef  Miškovsk).- Chapter 9. Silesian Identity across the Internal Borders of the EU (Tadeusz Siwek).- Part III: Research in the Model Euroregions on the Czech Borderlands.- Chapter 10. The Quality of Life and Cross-Border Relation in Selected Czech Euroregions (Alena Matušková).- Chapter 11. The Building of Cross-Border Region Using the Example Euroregion Silva Nortica - on the Way from Closed to Open Borders (Tomáš Havlíček).- Chapter 12. Cross-Border Community Expression of Open Civil Society on the Example of the Euroregion Elbe/Labe (František Zich ).- Chapter 13. Conclusions: The borderlands after Schengen – self-sufficient, oscillatory and/or transit regions? (Milan Jeřábek).