This paper investigates the impact of changes in national border demarcation on economic integration. It treats the national breakups in Central Europe due to WWI as a natural experiment, which allows for evaluating the particular effect of new national borders. A gravity model of trade is used...

This book collected together and - in many cases - translated into English for the first time the main articles of Marian Ma?owist, one of the most fertile Polish historian of the 20th century, on the central issue of our times: the wide and widening gulf between the core and the periphery, the...