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Cross-Border Cooperation and Transformation of Regional Identities in the Ukrainian–Russian Borderlands: Towards a Euroregion “Slobozhanshchyna”? Part 1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Tatiana Zhurzhenko*
Affiliation:
V.Karazin Kharkiv National University, School of Philosophy, Ukraine and Institute for East European History, University of Vienna, Austria
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It is well known that the idea and practice of cross-border cooperation have been developed in postwar Europe with the intention of overcoming the economic and social isolation of border regions and reconciling the hostilities between former enemies. But as a precondition for this process the new map of European borders had to be perceived as “final” and “just,” and as such it was legitimized on international and national levels. Moreover, it was the universal acceptance of the principle of the invariability of borders which made it possible for national governments to grant border regions more freedom in their contacts with the neighbours. The same applies in principle to the former socialist countries, where cross-border cooperation is supposed to help overcome the post-Cold-War division of Europe.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , March 2004 , pp. 207 - 232
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Copyright © 2004 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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