Cross-Border Cooperation as Conflict Transformation: Promises and Limitations in EU Peacebuilding

Deiana, Maria-Adriana; Komarova, Milena; McCall, Cathal

doi:10.1080/14650045.2019.1599518

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“…Borderscapes are multilocal socio-political arenas that emerge around border(ing) contexts and are thus di used beyond the physical border. With a borderscapes approach, the realm of high politics is connected to with that of communities and individuals who are a ected by and negotiate borders and hence it represents a highly promising tool for 're-assembling' border complexity (Brambilla 2015) we can also study how and why borders also serve as resources for dialogue, cultural expression and political empowerment (Deiana, Komarova, McCall 2019;Mezzadra, Neilson 2012).…”

Section: State Of the Debate And Hungarian Border Studiesmentioning

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Hungarian Border Research as a reflection of European integration and regional transformation

Scott

2022

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This paper discusses ways in which Hungarian border studies have reflected processes of post-1989 transformation by moving towards a contextual perspective on diaerent border-making (bordering) processes. Traditionally, Hungarian border studies, and with them geographical conceptualizations of Hungarian state spaces, have reflected changing historical and political contexts as well as dominant scientific paradigms that have shifted with time. In the past, this has also manifested itself in varying degrees of environmental determinism and ethno-nationalism. In the contemporary context, Hungarian border studies have developed a plural, multilevel as well as critical focus that interlinks diaerent areas where borders are politically and socially relevant. As will be elaborated in the following, several conceptualisations of Hungary’s border situation have emerged that reflect: 1) new cross-border economic, political and social spaces, 2) the influence of European integration on Hungary’s politics of borders and 3) the symbolic significance of contemporary and historical borders. These concepts, which will be dealt with below, express both historical continuity as well as conceptual innovation deriving from more recent experience. Above all, the development of Hungarian border studies, particularly since 1989, is of particular significance as it manifests a shift from an ‘introverted’ perspective to a conceptualization of Hungary both as a nation-state and as a borderlands society within contemporary Europe. This contribution makes no attempt at comprehensiveness and it is, admittedly, a highly selective overview of a very rich and multidisciplinary research field. In the interest of brevity, attention will focus on only a few representative strands of investigation that, in my view, have been formative in the more recent development of Hungarian border studies.

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Section: State Of the Debate And Hungarian Border Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hungarian Border Research as a reflection of European integration and regional transformation

Scott

2022

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“…As such, what was intended to reassure people only served to heighten anxieties about the potential impact of Brexit on the border (Hayward, 2017(Hayward, , 2018. Such anxieties were made all the more acute by the degree to which European integration had changed the Irish border, most particularly since the peace process (Deiana et al, 2019). Some of this integration was a consequence of single market membership (e.g., harmonization of regulations, removing non-tariff barriers to trade) and EU investment in regional development in the poor border areas (Hayward, 2007), but the post-1998 Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement conditions for cross-border institutional cooperation in such areas as agriculture, health, waterways and food safety helped foster and normalize such connections (McCall & O'Dowd, 2008).…”

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‘Flexible and Imaginative’: The EU’s Accommodation of Northern Ireland in the UK–EU Withdrawal Agreement

Hayward

2021

International Studies

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The 1998 Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement that cemented the peace process formalized Northern Ireland’s position as a region integrally connected to both Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland. The multilevel governance and cross-border cooperation this entailed was enabled by common UK and Irish membership of the European Union. The UK’s decision to leave the EU posed risks to this settlement. In response, they engaged in a quest for ‘flexible and imaginative solutions’ to this conundrum. The unique arrangements established through the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in the UK–EU Withdrawal Agreement (2019) mark an innovative and ambitious development for the EU. First, it de facto includes a region of a non-member state within its internal market for goods and, second, it delegates the enforcement of its rules to that non-member state. The Protocol represents a significant departure for the EU in terms of its typical engagement with external actors. Most significantly, it will not only represent a ‘live’ concern for the EU but a unique type of responsibility.

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“…However, through the borderscape lens, bordering critique has opened up space for alternative understandings of border-making practices. We are not limited to mere deconstruction and questionings of borders as expressions of exclusion or mechanisms of governmentality, but can also study how and why borders also serve as resources for dialogue, cultural expression and political empowerment (Deiana et al 2019;Mezzadra and Neilson 2012).…”

Section: Consequences Of Bordering: Linking the Political With The Evmentioning

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Introduction to A Research Agenda for Border Studies

Scott¹

2020

A Research Agenda for Border Studies

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Cross-Border Cooperation as Conflict Transformation: Promises and Limitations in EU Peacebuilding

Cited by 7 publications

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Hungarian Border Research as a reflection of European integration and regional transformation

Hungarian Border Research as a reflection of European integration and regional transformation

‘Flexible and Imaginative’: The EU’s Accommodation of Northern Ireland in the UK–EU Withdrawal Agreement

Introduction to A Research Agenda for Border Studies

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