The role of cross-border cooperation programme in de-marginalisation of peripheral border regions

Studzińska Dominika and Bartnik Katarzyna

European Planning Studies, 2025, vol. 33, issue 5, 739-756

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to identify the effects of cross-border cooperation undertaken within the framework of the 2014–2020 Poland-Russia Program, implemented in times of geopolitical instability. The analysis is based on a survey conducted with the beneficiaries of the program. The study was carried out in the Polish border area located in the immediate vicinity of the Kaliningrad Oblast (a militarized Russian exclave). The authors prove that the CBC in peripheral border areas along the external borders of the European Union is one of the key factors enabling their socio-economic stabilization, which determines the stakeholders’ efforts to cooperate with non-EU partners. In addition, the study shows that the new geopolitical paradigm (triggered by the outbreak of full-scale war in Ukraine), together with a sense of insecurity, are factors that end cooperation in peripheral border regions with an unsafe neighbourhood.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2025.2461769

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