Borders in Central Europe After the Schengen Agreement

1. Introduction
Milan Jeřábek, Tomáš Havlíček, Jaroslav Dokoupil

2. Changing European Union: The Schengen Agreement
Petr Dostál

3. Development in the Border Areas as Part of the European Integration Process
Jaroslav Dokoupil, Tomáš Havlíček, Milan Jeřábek

4. The Schengen Phenomenon—Fact or Fiction?
Tomáš Havlíček, Milan Jeřábek, Jaroslav Dokoupil

5. Euroregions as a Platform for Cross-Border Cooperation
Milan Jeřábek, Tomáš Havlíček, Jaroslav Dokoupil

6. Institutionalisation of Cross-Border Cooperation: The Role of the Association of European Border Regions
Martín Guillermo Ramírez

7. Boundaries and Transborder Relations: The Case of Switzerland
Walter Leimgruber

8. Development of the Slovak Borderlands with an Emphasis on the Situation After Schengen: Internal and External Borders
Marián Halás

9. Eastern Borderland of the Baltic States as the External Border of Schengen
Josef Miškovský

10. Silesian Identity Across the Internal Border of the EU
Tadeusz Siwek

11. Quality of Life and Cross-Border Relations in Selected Czech Euroregions
Alena Matušková, Jiří Preis, Magdalena Rousová

12. Building a Cross-Border Region Using the Example of Euroregion Silva Nortica—On the Way from Closed to Open Borders
Tomáš Havlíček, Veronika Klečková

13. Creating a Cross-Border Community as Part of the European Integration Process
František Zich

14. Conclusions: The Borderlands After Schengen—Self-sufficient, Oscillatory and/or Transit Regions?
Milan Jeřábek, Tomáš Havlíček, Jaroslav Dokoupil

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Human Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Urban Studies/Sociology