1st Edition

Border Regimes in Twentieth Century Europe

By Péter Bencsik Copyright 2023
150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the history of passports, border surveillance, border crossing, and other elements of European border regimes in the 20th century. Border regime is interpreted widely, including inbound and outbound travels, permanent and temporary movements, distance and local border traffic, borderland fortifications, penalties for... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1 Theoretical background

Chapter 2 The emergence of the western and eastern model

Chapter 3 The period of the two World Wars

Chapter 4 Cold War tendencies

Chapter 5 Border regimes of East Central Europe, 1945–1989

Conclusions

Sources and bibliography

Biography

Péter Bencsik is Associate Professor at the University of Szeged, researching border regimes and territorialisation in East Central Europe, Hungarian–Czechoslovak relations, and history of the communist bloc. He is author of New borders as local economic possibility? The case of post-1920 Hungary (2020).

Bencsik’s work - broadly historiographical and theoretical in Border Regimes in Twentieth Century Europe - offers much-needed contributions to the history of borders…he demonstrates the ways in which border regimes have frequently changed over time and convincingly shows their importance to understanding modern European history - Leslie Waters, University of Texas at El Paso, USA