Martin Klatt

European Centre for Minority Issues

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Media in a minority language is an essential tool for intra-minority communication in non-territorial autonomy settings, yet minority language media outlets face several challenges. Usually , their potential audience (viewers, subscribers) is too small to operate in a financially sustainable way. Moreover, the challenges for print media are more se...

In this paper, I scrutinise a perceived best-practice example of national conflict resolution and minority accommodation (the Danish–German borderland of Schleswig) on the dilemma of responsibility to implement minorities’ linguistic, cultural and educational rights. The respective German minority in Denmark and the Danish minority in Germany opera...

Non-territorial autonomy (NTA) is a concept to ensure political and cultural participation of national minorities in society and thus a tool to manage diversity without challenging territorial integrity. This article relates to the experience of Schleswig, which is widely perceived as a model of successful border-delineation based on national self-...

In 2020, the Sars-CoV-2 (also known as the COVID-19/Coronavirus) crisis resulted in the closure of most of Europe’s borders, both external and internal. What consequences does this have for border regions as living spaces? This article uses the Danish-German border region as an example for the complex impact of the Sars-CoV-2 crisis on a European b...

Die Erforschung von Grenzen erfährt aktuell eine enorme Aufmerksamkeit. Das erste deutschsprachige Handbuch zum hochdynamischen Forschungsfeld der Grenzforschung stellt das interdisziplinäre Sachgebiet in seiner Breite dar und liefert somit eine aktuelle Bestimmung des Feldes. In über 30 Beiträgen aus verschiedenen Disziplinen werden zunächst die h...

The Danish–German border in the Schleswig region was drawn in 1920. It separated a hitherto economically and socially integrated region, taking into account the right of national self-determination. Since the late 20th century, Danish and German stakeholders have celebrated a narrative of overcoming the border. Thus, it came as a shock to local sta...

Interreg has been the European Union (EU) initiative to support territorial cooperation and integration across borders. 30 years of Interreg, though, have not changed the fact that different barriers persist at the inner borders of the EU, and that only a few cross-border territories have emerged as joint action spaces with in-depth political coope...

Border studies have become increasingly global over the past two decades. Yet, a network analysis of the articles published in the Journal of Borderlands Studies from 1986 to 2018 shows that less than half of them have one or more coauthors. Unlike in other scientific disciplines, where a growth of co-publications is observed, this proportion has n...

Border zones are characteristic for being the site of competing national movements’ struggle on a territory and its population: a population did not only have to awaken to a nationality, but also to the ‘correct’ nationality. Studying national protagonists of competing national movements in border regions therefore promises solid evidence of the re...

This paper examines the role of Euroscepticism on regional cross-border cooperation between Germany and Denmark. It demonstrates that Euroscepticism, while absent from local mainstream politicians, had already caused civic unrest in the 1997 attempts to construct a return to history Euro-region Schleswig. It resulted in a re-scaling of the Euro-Reg...

The paper reflects on the systemic barriers as well as the cultural separation on intra-European borders as a result of the technical development of the European welfare state; and the rather flexible border management of African borders, with high porosity for local residents and intact cross-border communities.

This book collects eight case studies on how regional and local government and non-political stakeholders can contribute to reconciliation, peace-building and cooperation across borders. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of Regional & Federal Studies.

In recent decades, European neighbouring regions have gained importance in the processes of spatial integration within the European Union. Based on the European Cohesion goals, cross-border cooperation among institutions supports the socio-economic development of the regions and enhances equality across Europe. In order to study cross-border instit...

The border between Germany and Denmark is a result of the Versailles Peace Treaty implemented after the First World War. Drawn after a plebiscite in 1920, it was challenged until at least the 1950s by key actors within the respective national minorities on either side of the border and their nationalist supporters. Since the millennium, though, a n...

Studies on international relations increasingly focus on actors at the sub-state level. The terms para-diplomacy or proto-diplomacy are used to describe international activities of state institutions below the national level and outside the foreign services. In this special issue, we have collected seven case studies from Europe, North America and...

Studies on international relations increasingly focus on actors at the sub-state level. The terms para-diplomacy or proto-diplomacy are used to describe international activities of state institutions below the national level and outside the foreign services. In this special issue, we have collected seven case studies from Europe, North America and...

Euroscepticism in border regions, re-bordering, border controls during the so-called migration crisis in 2016

In the recent decades, European neighbouring regions gained importance in the processes of spatial integration within the European Union. Spatial integration is considered to create openness of local economies and societies to promote a European culture with common norms and values. Cross-border regions benefit from the common European goal of inte...

This article presents an analysis of recent developments in labor-related mobility (cross-border commuting) in the Danish–German border region of Sønderjylland-Schleswig. The region had an integrated labor market, until today's German–Danish border was drawn in 1920, dividing the historic Duchy of Schleswig. Until Denmark joined the EC in 1973, the...

After the First World War, five plebiscites were held to delineate the borders of Germany, Denmark, reestablished Poland, Austria, Hungary and newly established Yugoslavia. The territories subjugated for the plebiscites were border territories, where national identification had not been clear during the nineteenth century. Here, we analyse the Germ...

Addressing and conceptualizing the changing character of borders in contemporary Europe, this book examines developments occurring in the light of European integration processes and an on-going tightening of Europe's external borders. Moreover, the book suggests new ways of investigating the nature of European borders by looking at border practices...

This article examines four cross-border regions across the Dutch–German and Danish–German border, which now have experience of over 30 years' more or less institutionalized cross-border cooperation: the Euregio Rhein–Ems–IJssel (often referred to as EUREGIO), the Ems–Dollart Region, Region Sønderjylland-Schleswig, and Fehmarn Belt Region. The focus...