ABSTRACT
Central Europe's border twin towns are locations where border processes are intensively visible. Most are closely related to the dynamics of European integration, being a framework of debordering or rebordering in each pair. The chapter argues that cross-border integration is not always linear, as suggested by the non-functional logics of the European integration theory. The deboundarization observable in most cases after 1989 was motivated by continental integration involving national and local authorities as well as local communities in border-twin towns. The transformations in the borders and border-twin towns have not been linear. After 1989, continental deboundarization affected the western and 'internal' borders of the region, whereas its eastern border experienced reboundarization. On Central Europe's western border, deboundarization and refrontierization were caused mainly by reconciliation between neighboring states and nations. The cases located on the region's 'internal' borders reveal two, sometimes contradictory, tendencies.
