Contact Information: Helga Schultz, European University at Frankfurt, Postbox 1786, Frankfurt (Oder), Brandenburg, D-15207, Germany. Ph: 0049 335 5534 2314. Fax: 0049 335 5534 2613. Email: goeritz@euv-frankfurt-o.de.

Organizers: Helga Schultz (Germany), Uwe Müller (Germany) and Stefan Kowal (Poland)

Description: Borders and border regions are one of the most remarkable areas of the nation-building process in the 19th century Europe.Nevertheless, it is one of the most neglected fields of research, especially in economic history. Old and new borders became particularly importance in the ethnic mixed East Central Europe during the era of national state-building after 1918. (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and the Baltic States). An essential part of regional disparity in Eastern Europe grew from the difficulties of these young economies. It increased after WWII because of the policy of autarky inside the COMECON countries. These historical aspects could explain some difficulties of the prospective EU members.

Participants: Helga Schultz (Germany); Richard Pomfret (Australia); Franz Baltzarek (Austria); Boris Barth (Germany); Marcel Boldorf (Germany); Dagmara Jajesniak-Quast (Germany); Andrea Komlosy (Austria); Stefan Kowal (Poland); Uwe Müller (Germany); Caitlin Murdock (USA).

Program: Program for the 27th Session, National Borders and Disintegration of Market Areas in East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Century

List of accepted papers (April, 2002)

1st Time block

1. Integration and disintegration in multinational Empires
Chair and Commentator: Richard Pomfret

• Marcel Boldorf: The Impact of Border Changes before National Market Integration: Silesia after the Prussian Annexation of 1742
• Franz Baltzarek: Borders in a Multinational Setting - the Tragedy of Successful Market Integration in the Habsburg Monarchy 1815 - 1920
• Constantin Iordachi: Internal Colonialism: The Expansion of Romania’s Frontier into Northern Dobrogea, 1878-1913
• Uwe Müller: The Prussian Eastern Provinces of the German Empire between National Economy and an East-Central European Regional Division of Labour
• Wieslaw Pus and Stefan Pytlas: Industry and Trade in Lodz and the Eastern markets in Partitioned Poland

2. World Wars and new Nation states
Chair and Commentator: Nigel Swain

• Helga Schultz: Self-Determination and Economic Interest: Border Drawing after the World Wars
• Stefan Kowal: Economic Co-operation between Poland, the Former Partition States and their Successors in the Interwar Period
• Boris Barth: Economic Integration in Central Europe between the two wars: the Czechoslovak Perspective
• Caitlin Murdock: From Border Region to State Boundary: the Saxon-Bohemian Border from 1900 to 1938
• Tadeusz Janicki: The Eastern Border of Warta Country and the economic consequences of its Demarcation under German occupation

2nd Time block

3. The Communist Period and the actual Transformation Process between Integration and Disintegration
Chair and Commentator: Marcel Boldorf

• Andrea Komlosy: Regional Integration in a Global Context: the Case of the Republic of Austria (1918-2000)
• Nigel Swain: Socialist Autarky and Failed Socialist Internationalism. Comecon and “Perverse Successes” of the Hungarian Computer Industry
• Dagmara Jajesniak-Quast: The “European Coal and Steel Community” of the East. the Comecon and the failure of socialist integration
• Wolfgang Aschauer: The role of Hungary´s Western Border Region in the Post-1989 Transformation Process
• Richard Pomfret: National Borders and Disintegration of Market Areas in Central Asia after 1991

4. Conclusions
Helga Schultz/Uwe Müller: General report
General discussion
 

Preconference : The preconference for this session was held on March 29 - April 1, 2001 at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).

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