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Wider Europe

Nordic and Baltic Lessons to Post-Enlargement Europe

Edited by Fabrizio Tassinari, Pertti Joenniemi and Uffe Jakobsen

ISBN: 87-7605-159-5

DIIS Book, October 2006, 148 p.

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This volume departs from the idea that the Baltic Sea region can be regarded as a significant laboratory in view of wider European developments. Local and regional resources have over the recent years been mobilized rather successfully. This has been done by transcending previous borderlines in order to create social and economic well-being as well as stability.

The various contributions in this book explore this development and the policies of the various relevant actors. In particular, questions are posed as to the impact of the enlargement in 2004 and the more recent European developments. This includes the EU devising itself a new neighborhood (ENP) policy. Is there something in the region that others can learn from? Are the actors in the region able to take stock of their own achievements and utilize them in a broader European environment? Moreover, how are these achievements related to the more recent endeavors to create a more standardized European configuration with the policies of the core assumed to be applicable through-out Europe?

 

Contents

  • Preface
    Uffe Jakobsen
     
  • Introduction
    Fabrizio Tassinari
     
  • The European Neighbourhood Policy and its Linkage with European Security
    Gianni Bonvicini
     
  • Thoughts of Civilisation, Security, Integration and Reform
    Alyson J.K. Bailes
     
  • Northern Europe as a ‘Constructive Margin’
    Noel Parker
     
  • Models for the European Neighbourhood Policy: The European Economic Area and the Northern Dimension
    Marius Vahl
     
  • Eastern or Western, New or False: Classifying the Balts in the Post-Cold War Era
    Marko Lehti
     
  • Russia’s Role in the Baltic: Approaches to National Security and to the European Security and Defence Policy
    Elzbieta Tromer 
     
  • Russia: Geopolitical Views and Domestic Political Context
    Mark Urnov
     
  • Russian Views on the Wider Europe Concept
    Aledander Sergounin
     
  • Concluding Remarks:The Big Picture and the Small
    Pertti Joenniemi
     
  • About the Authors

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