Die Beiträge sind in Zusammenhang mit den Vorbereitungen des XIII. Kongresses der "International Economic History Association" in Buenos Aires im Juli 2002 entstanden. Aus dem Inhalt: I. The "Nationalisation" of Market Areas in the 19th Century; II. The World War Era: Helga Schultz: Self-Determination and Economic Interest: Border Drawing after the World Wars (109-124). III. The Communist Period and Transformation to Market Economy: Andrea Komlosy: Regional Integration in a Global Context: the Case of the Republic of Austria over the Course of the 20th Century (193-207); Nigel Swain: Socialist Autarky and Failed Socialist Internationalism: Comecon and "Perverse Successes" of the Hungarian Computer Industry (209-221); Dagmar Jajesniak-Quast: The "European Coal and Steel Community" of the East: the Comecon and the failure of socialist integration (223-244); Wolfgang Auschauer: The role of Hungary's Western Border Region in the Post-1989 Transformation Process (245-260); Richard Pomfret: National Borders and Disintegration of Market Area in Central Asia after 1991 (260-279).