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Introduction (Milan  Jeřábek).- Part I: European Integration, Borderlands and Schengen.- Chapter 1. Changing European Union: the Schengen Agreement (Petr Dostal).-  Chapter 2. The Development of Borderlands as a Part of European Process of Integration (Jaroslav Dokoupil).- Chapter 3. Phenomenon of Schengen – Fact or Fiction? (Tomáš Havlíček).- Chapter 4. Euroregions as a Platform for Cross-Border Cooperation (Milan  Jeřábek).- Chapter  5. Institutionalisation of Cross-Border Cooperation: the Role of the Association of European Border regions (Martín Guillermo Ramirez).- Part II: Case Studies - Internal and External Schengen Borders.- Chapter 6. The Example of Swiss Borderland with a Focus on Euregio Basiliensis/Tri Rhena (DE/FR/CH) (Walter Leimgruber).- Chapter 7. Development of the Slovak Borderlands with an Emphasis on the Situation after Schengen: internal and external borders (Marian Halás).- Chapter 8. Eastern Borderland of the Baltic States as the External Border of Schengen (Josef  Miškovsk).- Chapter 9. Silesian Identity across the Internal Borders of the EU (Tadeusz Siwek).- Part III: Research in the Model Euroregions on the Czech Borderlands.- Chapter 10. The Quality of Life and Cross-Border Relation in Selected Czech Euroregions (Alena Matušková).- Chapter 11. The Building of Cross-Border Region Using the Example Euroregion Silva Nortica - on the Way from Closed to Open Borders (Tomáš Havlíček).- Chapter 12. Cross-Border Community Expression of Open Civil Society on the Example of the Euroregion Elbe/Labe (František Zich ).- Chapter 13. Conclusions: The borderlands after Schengen – self-sufficient, oscillatory and/or transit regions? (Milan Jeřábek).