Europe from Exclusive Borders to Inclusive Frontiers [antikvár]

Europe from Exclusive Borders to Inclusive Frontiers Introductionloan HORGA, Dana PANTEAIn 2005, when the European Centre of Excellence "Jean Monnef'-Institute of Euroregional Studies Oradea-Debrecen Project was prepared and the publication of Eurolimes journal was planned, there wasn't any idea of a publication having the name of a paradigm. Kalipso Nicolaides considers that Eurolimes is "un paradigme qui lie l'intégration a I'interieur et a I'exterieur, les liens intercultureles, interethatiques et interclasses tisses au sein de l'Union d'aujourd'hui et les liens inter-Etats tisses avec ses nouveaux membres potentiels" (Nicolaides, 2007: 287). The meaning of the Eurolimes paradigm as mentioned above by Nicolaides (Nicolaides, 2003) was defined in the very first issue, in the article Why Eurolimes (Horga, 2006). The same meaning is to be found with Etienne Balibar who speaks about Europe as of a borderland (Balibar, 2004); with Jacques Rupnik who speaks not only about Europe's frontiers, but also about the new frontiers "inside Europe" (Rupnik, 2003; Rupnik, 2007); with Thomas Christiansen who writes about fluid frontiers (Christiansen and all, 2000) or with Olli Rehn for whom the notion next frontier is more suitable than border for testing ground for the EU soft power (Rehn, 2006). Our journal aims at presenting the way in which the changing in the meaning of internal frontiers takes place as seen evolving from the national perspective towards the community one; and the way in which the meaning of EU's external frontier changes from an exclusive community perspective to a flexible inclusive one. The balance between open frontiers and closed frontiers (Delanty, 2006), confirming the borders - transcending the borders (Dimitrovova, 2007), intercultural dialogue and the impact of media (La Brosse, 2007; Malovic, 2007), the role of media in changing the meaning of borders (Horga: 2003; 2007), interethnic relations (Soproni, 2006; Follrichova & Rouet, 2007), interreligiuos relations (Marczewska - Rytko,2006; Bazin, 2007), across border social relations are terms used in the first three issues of our joumal (Eurolimes, 2006/1-2; 2007/3) and will be used in the following ones.In order to prepare the current issue of the joumal we organized the seminar From Kaliningrad to the Black Sea. A New Interpretation of European Union's East Frontiers in Oradea, on the 4"" - 7"' of June 2007. We had in mind to gather as many different points of view concerning the East frontier of the new Europe as possible, after the most extensive acceding process has been completed. During the seminar there were presented three different categories of papers which didn't have as main subject Europe as an open frontier. That's why we considered to change the title of our publication in order to gather the papers presented at the seminar under the title: Europe from Exclusive Borders to Inclusive Frontiers. This decision is based on the similitudes between our subject and the one of the supporters who are in favour of the paradigm of Europe as an inclusive frontier (Eurolimes) (Nicolaidis, 2007; Zielonka, 2002, 2006; Geremek & Picht, 2007).We followed these steps under the circumstances in which the greatest part of the papers deal with the changing in the meaning of frontiers between the new EU member states. This change proves us that the research workers , especially those from the newly integrated countries, but not only them, are more interested in a pragmatic perspective than in a cosmopolitan one. The papers dealing with this subject have been gathered in a chapter under the title: Europe - a Euromyth, with or without Borders.The first paper in this chapter is that of Frank Pfetch. The author's main question in his confribution is whether that the borders are an obstacle or a facilitator for peace. Since it is quite obvious that borders can be both object of quarrel and defenders of peace, the question has to be