Ciubotă, Viorel - Nicolescu, Gheorge - Ţucă, Cornel (szerk.): Jurnal de operaţiuni al Comandamentului Trupelor din Transilvania (1918-1921) 2. (Satu Mare, 1998)

Istorie şi Geografie Istorică / Geschichte und Landeskunde / Történelem és országismeret - Regiuni de frontieră şi zone de contact / Grenzreionen und Kontakträume / Határvidékek és kapcsolódási területek

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e. the opposite of that Other in which the minority traces the reasons of its particularity. Such borderland identities can be traced, following the Rusyn model, almost everywhere: we shall remember the IstroVenetians in Slovenia and Croatia or the Ladin Dolomitans and the Romansch between Italy and Switzerland (CALVI 1999a).

However, the analysis of these borderland identities foresees a new approach both from the researchers and the politicians, since in our opinion the future will be shown by the capability of going beyond the concept of nation and national culture, looking for all those particular cultures that coexist in a region and that together with other particularities and regions can give new forces to the Academy »and to Politics. In order to do that, we shall be compelled to forget the old fashioned studies, limited by the State borders and by already old disciplines, and look for new areal studies in which interdisciplinariety and transdisciplinariety will go along with the need of the Europe to reach a supranational character, able to gather the imperial, the national and the international inheritances the history of Europe showed us up to now.

Only this way, going beyond the utopia of nations and looking for the regions, remembering that the borders are a point of union and not necessarily of division, we shall be able to avoid a new cultural and, much more dangerous, political balcanization of Central Europe, whose effects could be impossible to foresee not only for the region, but for the whole Europe of the future.

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