| Summary: | 14 Charles University in Prague Faculty of Science Department of Social Geography and Regional Development Aleš Nováček DUALISM IN EUROPE: HISTORICAL-GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND ITS DELIMITATION Summary Prague 2010 15 The Twentieth Century gave the European structure as well as the world new face. However, this assertion is true only partially. Behind these "fresh" traces as results of more and more intensive and dynamic development there are still hidden hundred-year-old fundaments which, thanks to their influence, continuously determine and jointly form the current geographical structure of Europe, including its special contours and division. Looked at from the most general level, the European structure was at least till the year 1989 clear: on one side there was the capitalist and democratic West and on the other side the socialistic and communistic East. It was this period when the dual perception of Europe became dominant, not only in the geopolitical concepts of the literature focused on this field but also in the perception of the public itself. The fact that the phenomenon of dualism in Europe is clear and continually followed from the ancient times till the present days makes this conception even more stable. This continuum can be also found behind the fact that not even after the...
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