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Journal of the Institute for Euroregional Studies “Jean Monnet” European Centre of Excellence University of Oradea University of Debrecen Volume 29 Border Regions: Area of Cooperation and good Neighbourhoods Edited by Florentina CHIRODEA, Khrystyna PRYTULA & Klára CZIMRE References by Ioana BORDEIANU & Fabienne MARON 2020 Eurolimes Journal of the Institute for Euroregional Studies ―Jean Monnet‖ European Centre of Excellence Editors-in-chief: Ioan HORGA (Oradea) and István SÜLI-ZAKAR (Debrecen) 2020 Volume 29 Border Regions: Area of Cooperation and good Neighbourhoods Edited by Florentina CHIRODEA, Khrystyna PRYTULA & Klára CZIMRE Honorary Members Paul Alliès (Montpellier), Robert Bideleux (Swansea), Erhard Busek (Wien), Jean Pierre Colin (Reims), George Contogeorgis (Athene), Gerard Delanty (Sussex), Gennady Feodorov (Kaliningrad) Chris G. Quispel (Leiden), Anatoliy Kruglashov (Chernivtsi), Jarosław Kundera (Wrocław), Ariane Landuyt (Siena), Ewa Latoszek (Warsaw), Thomas Lundén (Stockholm), John Mearsheimer (Chicago), Kalypso Nicolaidis (Oxford), Adrian Miroiu, Iordan Bărbulescu (Bucureşti), Frank Pfetsch (Heidelberg), Andrei Marga, Ioan Aurel Pop, Vasile Puşcaş, Nicolae Păun (Cluj-Napoca), Carlos Eduardo Pacheco Amaral (Asores), Daniela Preda (Pavia), Richard Sakwa (Kent), Barbu Ştefănescu (Oradea), Maria Manuela Tavares Ribeiro (Coimbra), Dusan Sidjanski (Geneve), Maurice Vaïsse (Paris), Alexis Vahlas, Birte Wassenberg (Strasbourg). Advisory Committee Czimre Klára, Kozma Gábor, Teperics Károly (Debrecen), Ioana Bordeianu, Mircea Brie, Alexandru Kiss, Alexandru Ilieş, Sorin Şipoş (Oradea), Ovidiu Ghitta, Adrian Ivan (Cluj-Napoca), Didier Francfort (Nancy), Tamara Gella (Orel), Vasile Cucerescu, Cristina Morari, Ludmila Roşca (Chişinău), Karoly Kocsis (Miskolc), Cătălina Iliescu (Alicante), Goran Ilik (Bitola), Renaud de La Brosse (Reims), Maria Marczewska-Rytko, Bogumiła Mucha-Leszko (Lublin), Fabienne Maron (Brussels), Ivan Nacev (Sofia), Florin Păsătoiu (Craiova) Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, George Poede, Virgil Stoica (Iaşi), Myroslava Lendel, Mykola Palinchak (Uzhgorod), Roman Kalytchak, Khrystyna Prytula, Iryna Storonyanska (Lviv), Lavinia Stan (Halifax), Marcela Șlusarciuc (Suceava), Salome Dundua, Teona Mataradze (Tbilisi), Jan Wendt (Gdansk) Editorial Committee Alina-Carmen Brihan, Mariana Buda, Florentina Chirodea, Dorin Dolghi, Gabriela Gaudenhofft, Cristina Matiuŝă, Mirela Mărcuŝ, Mészáros Edina (Oradea), Nicolae Dandis (Cahul), Alexandrina Iremciuc (Genève), Molnar Ernő, Pénzes János, Radics Zsolt (Debrecen), Emanuel Plopeanu (Constanţa), Agneska Kłos, Marta Pachocka (Warsaw), Sedef Eylemer, Sinem Kokamaz (Izmir), Lyubov Melnichuk, Nataliya Nichayeva-Yuriychuk (Chernivtsi), Ana Maria Costea (Bucureşti), Anca Oltean, István Polgár, Irina Pop, Alina Stoica, Luminiŝa Şoproni, Constantin Ŝoca, Marius Tătar (Oradea), Silvia Sassano (Siena), Nino Tabeshadze (Tbilisi), Yaroslava Kalat (Lviv), Corina Turşie (Timişoara), Isabel Valente, Dina Sebastiao (Coimbra), Tigran Yepremyan (Yerevan) Executive Editor: Cristina-Maria DOGOT Assistant Editor (English): Simona FER Editorial Assistant: Elena ZIERLER The full responsibility regarding the content of the papers belongs exclusively to the authors. Address: University of Oradea 1st Universităŝii Street 410087-Oradea/Romania Tel/fax: +40.259.408.167 E-mail: [email protected], www.iser.rdsor.ro Image: Bémer Square with the Queen Maria Theatre in 1910. Private collection. Available on www.imagoromaniae.ro Eurolimes is a half-yearly peer-reviewed journal. Articles and book reviews may be sent to the above- mentioned address. The journal may be acquired by contacting the editors. Journal of the Institute for Euroregional Studies (IERS) is issued with the support of the Action Jean Monnet of the European Commission Oradea University Press ISSN-L: 1841-9259 ISSN 2247 / 8450 Cuprins ◊ Contents ◊ Sommaire ◊ Inhalt ◊ Tartalom Contents Florentina CHIRODEA (Oradea) Border Regions – Areas of Cooperation and Good Neighbourhood. Theoretical Considerations. .................................................... 7 I. European Theoretical Studies in the Sphere of Cross-Border Cooperation Development ............................................................................................................ 19 Małgorzata MYL, Bogdan-Nicolae MUCEA (Katowice, București) National Borders – Limitation for Human Rights Protection? ................................................ 21 Eglantina FARRUKU, Salih ÖZCAN (Tirana) Factors Contributing to Child Trafficking in Albania: Push Factors ........................................................................ 33 Volodymyr KHYMYNETS, Ganna TSIMBOLYNETS (Uzhhorod) Involvement of Migration Capital to Ensure Sustainable Development of the United Territorial Communities ................................................................................ 51 Loretta C. SĂLĂJAN (Satu Mare) The Political Psychologies of ―Eastern‖ and ―Western‖ Europe: Insights from Ontological Security ..................................... 67 II. Border Regions: Area of Cooperation and good Neighbourhoods .......................... 81 Kaltrina SALIHU, Toni MILESKI (Skopje) Geopolitics of Cross Border Cooperation between Kosovo and North Macedonia ................................................ 83 Marcela ȘLUSARCIUC (Suceava) Institutional System and Roadmap for Cross-Border Regional Development ....................................................................... 97 Florina-Mariana BOCOI (Cluj-Napoca) The Border Area as an Incentive for Investment and a Common Space for Development ............................................... 111 Magnus LINDH, Anders FORSELL (Karlstad) Differentiated Integration and European Borderlands: A Proposition to an Analytical Approach to Study the Development of Peaceful Cross-Border Relations. The Case of Sweden and Norway ............................................................................................................. 127 III. Development of European Union‟s Eastern Border Regions ................................ 147 Ioan HORGA (Oradea) The Contribution of Universities in Building Innovative Cross-Border Communities at Eastern EU Borders .............................. 149 Khrystyna PRYTULA, Olha DEMEDYUK, Yaroslava KALAT (Lviv) The Role of Cross-Border Cooperation in Ensuring the Regional Development of Lvivska Oblast (Ukraine) ........................................................................................ 171 Nino TABESHADZE (Tbilisi) EU Border: Divider or Unifier? ............................... 189 Cristina-Maria DOGOT (Oradea) The Eastern Partnership: Some Challenges of Multilateral Cooperation ..................................................................................... 203 Book Reviews ................................................................................................................... 225 Alina STOICA (Oradea) The Impact of Paradiplomacy in the Sphere of International Relations ............................................................................................ 227 Cristina-Maria DOGOT (Oradea) The Basis of the Global Power of the European Union....................................................................................................... 233 Florina-Mariana BOCOI (Oradea) The Border in a Multi-Perspective Approach ................................................................................................................. 239 About Authors ................................................................................................................. 253 This volume comprises the papers from the International Jean Monnet Conference ―Regional development at the borders of the European Union‖ 05-07 November 2019 Oradea, Romania This volume received financial support from the Jean Monnet Programme no. 599689-EPP-1-2018-1-RO-EPPJMO-MODULE Development of the Border Regions in Central and Eastern Europe Countries 7 Border Regions – Areas of Cooperation and Good Neighbourhood. Theoretical Considerations Florentina CHIRODEA* In the academic landscape of the social sciences, theoretical interest in border regions has long been neglected due to a widespread current of thought among researchers, which highlights the uniqueness of any area adjacent to a state border. Intrinsically linked to the multiple meanings assigned to borders, the concept of border region can be defined in a variety of ways, depending on the field of research and the viewpoint adopted. In the middle of the last century, border studies approached the issue of the areas near borders only tangentially, focusing particularly on defining the concept of border and on the impact of such demarcation lines upon the socio-economic interactions taking place among such border regions. Any analysis conducted during the aforementioned period was performed taking into account only the national context1. The isolated position of border zones, their orientation towards the central areas of the country and ignorance as regards their neighbours on the border made them typical examples of peripheral regions. In their case, the post-World War Two development efforts were supported by public interventions of national or regional governments. In fact, the second half of the last century was also marked by new ways of organizing production and transport, by technological innovations that favoured large-scale production and by drastic changes in the composition and industrial mechanisms of the world. Cities, regions and