Description du projet
Les frontières de la guerre froide dans la région adriatico-alpine
Le projet OPEN BORDERS, financé par l’UE, entend repenser l’histoire de l’Europe de la guerre froide en examinant le développement de la coopération transfrontalière transnationale dans la région adriatico-alpine, de la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale à nos jours. En se concentrant sur une région historique partagée aujourd’hui par l’Autriche, la Croatie, l’Italie et la Slovénie, le projet remettra en question la vision dichotomique de deux Europes distinctes, «l’Est» et «l’Ouest», à partir d’une nouvelle perspective frontalière. Par ailleurs, en réexaminant le passé européen sous un angle transnational, le projet mettra en évidence les interactions entre les politiques descendantes et les initiatives ascendantes, offrant ainsi une plateforme pour les discussions contemporaines sur la souveraineté, la territorialité et l’appartenance.
Objectif
"This project aims to rethink the history of Cold War Europe by examining the development of transnational cross-border cooperation from the end of World War II to the present. Overcoming traditional narratives of a clear-cut European separation symbolised by the Berlin Wall, a decentralised analysis of recent European history will show us that the question of a divided continent should be reframed. The final objective is to challenge a dichotomous vision of two separate Europes, “East” and “West”, from a new, border perspective. To this end, a highly qualified team of senior and junior scholars under my guidance will focus on the Alps-Adriatic region, a historical area that is now shared by Austria, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. This case involves a relatively narrow geographical area but an unusually broad typological range of subjects. During the Cold War it was divided among socialist but non-aligned Yugoslavia, capitalist but neutral Austria, and NATO and EEC member Italy. Its development from the ""southern end"" of the Iron Curtain in 1946 to the ""most open border"" during the Cold War and a precursor to present-day Schengen Europe, represents a paradigmatic case to study an alternative attitude towards borders, frontiers and boundaries. Drawing on Cold War and borderland studies, social history and the history of European integration, which up till now have not found common ground, our innovative conceptual elaboration will demonstrate the interplay between top-down politics and bottom-up initiatives, thus offering a new, and more nuanced history of Cold War Europe from the border perspective. Reconsidering the European past from this transnational angle, both in terms of geographic and methodological perspectives, will allow us to rediscover the human face of European integration and will offer us a new platform for contemporary discussions on sovereignty, territoriality and belonging and on the future role of borders in Europe and in the world."
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Thème(s)
Régime de financement
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedInstitution d’accueil
6000 Koper
Slovénie