Changing Borders: Legal and Economic Aspects of European Enlargement

Contents: Renate Kicker / Joseph Marko / Michael Steiner: Preface - Waltraud Klasnic: Foreword - Renate Kicker: The Alps Adriatic Working Community: Practice and Legal Aspects - Klaus Unterholzner: Recent Developments within the Council of Europe - Bojko Bucar: The Emergence of International (Legal) Obligations between Subnational Territorial Units - Illusion or Reality? - Roberto Toniatti: How Soft Is and Ought to Be the Law of Interregional Transborder Cooperation? - Noralv Veggeland: Regional Governance, Euro-Regions, Flexibility, Power and Rights - Horst Eisel: Schengen: New Borders in the Alpine and Adriatic Region? - Joseph Marko: Beyond the Nation-state: Problems of Regionalisation in Western and East Central Europe - Thomas Christiansen: Borders and Territorial Governance in the New Europe - Emil Kirchner: The Development and Importance of Interregional Cooperation in Central European States - Reinhard Rack and Judith Schwarzbauer: Between East and West: The Pre-Accession Strategy in the Heart of Europe - Josip Kregar: Democratization of Transitional Societies. Internal Processes and Regional Context - Michael Steiner: Changing Borders, Extending Markets and the Feeling of "Angst" - Riccardo Cappellin: Interregional Networking and the Principle of Subsidiarity in European Regional Policy - Erich Thöni: Is there a European Institutional Integration Trap? - Jolanta Dziembowska-Kowalska and Jan Kowalski: Institutional Factors in Transition of a Regional Economy: The Case of the Border Province of Gorzow in Western Poland - Gyula Horvath: Policy Legislation on Cross-Border Co-operation - Erhard Busek: New Forms of Cooperation in the Alps-Adria Region?

The editors are members of the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz. Renate Kicker is Associate Professor at the Institute of International Law and International Relations; Joseph Marko is Professor of Public Law and Member of the Constitutional Court in Sarajevo/Bosnia; Michael Steiner is Professor at the Department of Economics and Director of the Institute of Technology and Regional Policy at Joanneum Research in Graz and Vienna.