In this section we will examine the following issues:

a. Transitory states in Central Europe. Our objective here is to follow the fate of those states that lived days/weeks/months in Central Europe with a research team as international as possible. These examples range from d’Annunzio’s Fiume to Leitha-Banat and to the Republic of Central Lithuania. Within the area of the former, historic Hungary such states were the Székely (Szekler), Banat, Eastern-Slovakia, Szepes (or Spiš in Slovak, Zips in German), Kalotaszeg (Ţara Călatei) and Vendvidék (Porabje). What were the common features of these attempts, what guaranteed success? Can we discover Wilsonian thinking or the impact of early Fascism? What allows them to stay in place and why states cease to exist?

b. For understanding local and regional dimensions of transfer of sovereignity we study the impact of the transfer of power on local society in 12-15 locations, small and medium towns in the Carpathian Basin before and after transfer. How the takeover of public administration proceeded, how space was changed and how was education system modified. What were dominant patterns and what were the strategies that representatives of new states applied, what minority elites (and other social groups) did? What was the discursive space like in which actors wished to succeed, locally. (Proposed towns: Zombor [Sombor], Szabadka [Subotica], Pancsova [Pančevo], Arad, Gyergyószentmiklós [Gheorgheni], Nagyvárad [Oradea], Szilágysomlyó [Șimleu Silvaniei], Petrozsény [Petroşani], Nagyszombat [Trnava], Selmecbánya/Körmöcbánya (Banská Štiavnica/Kremnica), Komárom [Komárno], Ipolyság [Šahy], Beregszász [Beregovo], Rozsnyó [Rožňava], Késmárk [Kežmarok].) 

In this section we shall present frontier situation of new states and Hungary: the use of space (smuggling, border crossing and signposting the border, breaking (or remaking) of social and economic.  Team members responsible for the section: Balázs Ablonczy (transitory states, Centre for Humanities ELTE University, Institute of History, Central for Humanities, HAS), Máté Rigó (economic relations along the border, European University Institute), Veronika Gayer (transition of power, Institute of Minority Studies,  HAS), Attila Hunyadi (transition of power, Babes-Bolyai University), Árpád Hornyák (transition of power, Centre for Humanities, University of Pécs – Institute of History, HAS), Róbert Győri (human geography, economic relation around the border, Centre for Sciences, ELTE University), István Gaucsík (Hungarian-Czechoslovakian economic relations, Slovak Academy of Sciences).