Castle-Talks on Cross-Border Cooperation: Fear of Integration? the Pertinence of the Border (Studien Zur Geschichte der Europaischen Integration / Etudes Sur l'Histoire de l'Integration Europee)

In Europe, the Schengen crisis, spurred off by the unexpected migration flow in 2015, led to a re-questioning of the functions of "borders" in European integration. Especially the ideal of a "Europe without borders" is crumbling and the re-introduction of border controls in several EU member states not only slows down the process of European Integration, but also represents an obstacle to cross-border cooperation. One of the main consequences of this crisis is also growing euroscepticism and a new fear of integration which might even lead to the disintegration of the EU. The present publication regroups the contributions to four "castle-talks on cross-border cooperation" organized at the château Pourtalès, in Strasbourg, between 2012 and 2016, in the framework of Birte Wassenberg’s Erasmus and Jean Monnet activities supported by the European Commission. The different contributions deal with the theoretical link between borders, international relations and cross-border cooperation, by examining borders as places of cross-border governance, as gatekeepers of sovereignty and security, as "scars" of history and as places of reconciliation. Table of Contents / Table des matières / Inhaltsverzeichnis (BIRTE WASSENBERG) Foreword / Avant-Propos / Vorwort (ULI, HARALD & THOMAS LEIBRECHT) Castle-talks at Pourtalés / Castle-talks à Pourtalès / Castle-talks in Pourtalès (BIRTE WASSENBERG) Introduction / Introduction / Einleitung PRELIMINARY PART: BORDERS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION / FRONTIÈRES, RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES ET COOPÉRATION TRANSFRONTALIÈRE / GRENZEN, INTERNATIONALE BEZIEHUNGEN UND GRENZÜBERSCHREITENDE ZUSAMMENARBEIT (JEAN-CHRISTOPHE ROMER) International Relations and Area Studies / Relations Internationales et Area Studies / Internationale Beziehungen und Area Studies (BERNARD REITEL) Cross-Border Cooperation and International Relations: Towards the Emergence of a Cross-Border Regime? (EMMANUEL BRUNET-JAILLY) Borders and Border Disputes in the European Union PART 1: BORDERS AND GOVERNANCE : A NEW FOREIGN POLICY ? / FRONTIÈRES ET GOUVERNANCE: UNE NOUVELLE POLITIQUE ÉTRANGÈRE? / GRENZEN UND GOVERNANCE : EINE NEUE AUßENPOLITIK ? (KARL-HEINZ LAMBERTZ) Cross-Border Governance in Europe: A New Foreign Policy? (JOACHIM BECK) Territorial Institutionalism and the European Administrative Space. A Conceptual Framing for Capturing the Institutional Dynamics of Cross-Border Cooperation (CHRISTOPHER HUGGINS) Building Cross-Border Governance in the Channel / La Manche Region: Successes and Failures (MARCIN KRYMUSKI/PETER ULRICH) Actor ́s Participation in Cross-Border Governance Structures at the German-Polish Border. Case Studies from the Viadrina Region (HYNEK BÖHM) Networks As Functional New Micro-diplomacy Tools Supporting Crossborder Co-operation: Evidence and Lessons from Czech-Slovak Border PART 2: BORDERS: THE GATEKEEPERS OF SOVEREIGNTY AND SECURITY / FRONTIÈRES : LES GARDIENS DE LA SOUVERAINETÉ ET DE LA SÉCURITÉ / GRENZEN: DIE WÄCHTER DER SOUVERÄNITÄT UND SICHERHEIT (WALTER SPINDLER) Welcome Speech: Borders – Security and Geopolitical Aspects (ANTOINE ULLESTAD) Protecting the Security of the EU through its External Borders (JAUME CASTAN PINOS) Conflicts over Sovereignty in Europe in the so-called Post-Sovereignty Era (MANUEL FRIESECKE) The Pertinence of the External EU Border: A Swiss Point of View PART 3: BORDERS, THE “SCARS” OF HISTORY OR PLACES OF RECONCILIATION? / FRONTIÈRES, LES « CICATRICES » DE L’HISTOIRE OU LIEUX DE RÉCONCILIATION?/ GRENZEN, DIE „NARBEN“ DER GESCHICHTE ODER VERSÖHNUNGSORTE? (GERHARD BESIER) Mental Borders Create Limited Minds: How to Overcome Prejudices, Stereotypes and Concepts of an “Enemy” in the Second Decade of the 21rst Century (BIRTE WASSENBERG) The Rhine: A Border of Peace? Memories from Key Players in the Upper Rhine Region (BERNHARD KÖPPEN) Beyond “Erbfeind” and after Reconciliation. Shopping? A Comparative Study on French-German and Polish-German Cross-Border Tourism as a Common, Integrative Routine (BEATA HALICKA) The Polish-German Border: A Laboratory of Transnational Cooperation (KATARZYNA STOKLOSA) The Finnish-Russian Border between Myth and Reality PART 4: BORDER CONFLICTS, BARRIERS AND RESISTANCE TO INTEGRATION / CONFLITS FRONTALIERS, BARRIÈRES ET RÉSISTANCE À L’INTÉGRATION / GRENZKONFLIKTE, BARRIEREN UND WIDERSTAND GEGEN INTEGRATION (JEAN PEYRONY) Integration in Cross-Border Regions: Obstacles and Solutions (ANNE THEVENET) Capacity-Building as a Tool to Overcome Obstacles in Border Regions. The TEIN Approach (JORDI CICRES & SÍLVIA LLACH) The Role of Languages in Cross-Border Cooperation: Obstacle or Opportunity? (ANDY POLLAK) Irish-British Relations, 1998–2012: From Provincial Conflict to European Tensions (RUTH TAILLON) Cross-Border Cooperation and Peace-Building in Ireland (ALESSANDRO TORELLO) Barriers to the Bulgarian Cross-Border Cooperation with Rumania (ADRIANA DORFMAN) Smuggling in Sant’ana Do Livramento (Brazil) – Rivera (Uruguay): Unification, Mirroring and Difference Processes and Transitional Dispositives in Border Condition ANNEXES /ANHÄNGE /APPENDICES LES AUTEURS/ DIE AUTOREN/AUTHORS CONCERNANT LA SÉRIE « ÉTUDES SUR L’HISTOIRE DE L’INTÉGRATION EUROPÉENNE » ZUR REIHE „STUDIEN DER GESCHICHTE DER EUROPÄISCHEN INTEGRATION“ ABOUT THE SERIES “STUDIES ON THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION” Edited By Birte Wassenberg As Part Of Her Jean Monnet Chair And Project Activities. International Conference Proceedings. Includes Bibliographical References. English, French And German; English Texts With French And German Summaries.