Fellow project: „Entanglement and disentanglement in diverging space. Borderland between Austria and Hungary“
At the beginning of the 20th century there was close entangled history between Austria and Hungary at all levels at the border of Central Europe. Despite the common border and the transnational processes, the two countries were very distant from each other by the end of the 20th century. The complex, multiperspective and interdisciplinary case study attempts to find an answer to one of the burning questions of the borders between Central Europe: what makes these Borderlands be a converging instead of a diverging area? The project will examine the "hard" factors such as political and economic history and "soft" factors such as the world view, norms, values and culture which, despite centuries long common statehood, are responsible for the separation between Austria and Hungary. The aim is to link the levels of culture and ideology with political history events and processes. International relations are interpreted as cross-border interactions, relationships and interdependencies of states and societies. Based on these, foreign policy is the result of multifaceted and multi-level cultural communication. By focusing on transnational and trans regional transfer processes, cross-border entangles can be detected. Presentation of cultural contextualization between Central Europe and Eastern Central Europe is at the centre of this project.