Regional Development in Central and Eastern Europe : Development Processes and Policy Challenges (Hardcover)

Introduction  Part I: Central and Eastern Europe: The Dynamics of Development and Policy Responses   1. The Puzzles of Convergence: Europe’s Economic History in the 20th Century - Witold Orłowski  2. The Competitiveness of Central and Eastern European Countries: An Analysis of the Legal Environment - Gyongyi Csuka  3. Regional Development Dynamics in Central and Eastern European Countries - Grzegorz Gorzelak and Maciej Sm?tkowski  4. Challenges for National Regional Policies in the New Member States - Ji?i Bla?ek and Marie Mace?kova  5. Policy Lessons from the Reconstruction of East Germany - The Former German Democratic Republic - Wendelin Strubelt  Part II: Metropolises Of Central And Eastern Europe: New Competitors Or Secondary Nodes Of Global Networks  6. The State of European Cities and the Positions of New Member States - Jan Maarten De Vet  7. Central and Eastern European Urban Regions and the Knowledge Economy - Hans Joachim Kujath  8. Metropolitan Functions of Warsaw, Prague and Budapest - Katarzyna A. Ku?-Czajkowska  9. Spatial Planning and City Networks in Economic Development: A Critique of the Polish National Development Strategy - Peter J. Taylor  Part III: Border Location: An Impediment Or Opportunity For Regional Development  10. Economic Geography and European Integration: The Effects on he EU External Border Regions - George Petrakos and Lefteris Topaloglou  11. The European Union And Borders of Inclusion and Exclusion - James Wesley Scott  12. The Former Iron Curtain and the New Eastern External Border: The Impact on Spatial Development - Dora Illes  13. International Communications and Borders Regions: Transcending the Problem of Scale On The Boundary Between Russia And The EU - Vladimir Kolossov  Part IV: Central And Eastern Europe And The Eu Cohesion Policy Reforms: A Source Of Change Or A Defender Of The Status Quo?  14. Renewing EU Cohesion Policy - John Bachtler  15. EU Cohesion Policy: A Decline behind the Horizon? - Marek W Kozak, Paweł Opala and Paweł Samecki  16. Eu Cohesion Policy and the Peripheries of the New Member States - Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse  Conclusions