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- Title
Border Regimes, Freedom of Movement, and Globalization: The Hungarian and Czechoslovak Cases.
- Authors
Bencsik, Péter
- Abstract
The paper examines the impact of globalization on the border regimes of two state socialist countries. It is hypothesized that the flow of people across borders accelerated with growing contacts and that the global nature of this process was primarily reflected in the increase in movement between the Eastern and Western blocs rather than within the Soviet sphere of influence or in second-to-third world interactions. After examining the theoretical and historical background of the topic, differences in this mobility are shown by comparing the cases of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. The study is mainly based on secondary sources but also refers to the author's previous extensive research. A statistical analysis shows that globalization only affected the two countries in its entirety after 1988/89, that is, after the fall of the communist regimes. In the case of Hungary, however, a slight increase in the number and proportion of trips to and from the West is already observable from the early 1980s. Although previous scholarship has emphasized that human rights issues were crucial in the partial opening of the borders, this paper highlights the primacy of economic aspects.
- Subjects
FREEDOM of movement; GLOBALIZATION; SOCIALISTS; SOCIALISM; HUMAN rights
- Publication
Comparativ: Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte und Vergleichenden Gesellschaftsforschung, 2024, Vol 34, Issue 1/2, p166
- ISSN
0940-3566
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26014/j.comp.2024.01-02.08