Hedegaard / Lindström The NEBI YEARBOOK 1999

North European and Baltic Sea Integration
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-3-642-57127-5
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 494 Seiten, eBook

Thorvald Stoltenberg Ambassador Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board A.5 the second volume of the this yearbook goes to press, Europe faces new and to some degree unexpected dangers of political and ideological division. It is a frightening realisation that not even ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Empire and the democratisation and economic transformation of most of the old Soviet-dominated Central and Eastern Europe, fissures have appeared that threaten to undo some of what has been accomplished in terms of East-West rapprochement. The immediate crisis over Kosovo may well have been resolved by the time this is being read. However, it is hard to escape a foreboding that some of the mutual ill will between Russia and the Western powers that has surfaced in the wake of that conflict may linger for years to come. It is therefore imperative that Russia and the Western powers sit down to discuss what can be done to avoid similar conflicts in the future and how to overcome mutual recriminations so that they do not harden into new political front lines between East and West in Europe. The recent developments make the promotion of integration in the NEBI area even more urgent. So far this process has been based on two equally impor tant platforms: economic integration and political integration, including mea sures to dismantle old conflict potentials.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hedegaard, Lars

Lindström, Bjarne

Weitere Mitwirkende

Joenniemi, P.

Östhol, A.

Peschel, K.

Stalvant, C.-E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Northern Dimension, Russia and the Prospects for NEBI Integration.- I: Economic Integration.- 2. The Accession of Finland and the Non-Accession of Other NEBI States to EMU: Implications for Economic Integration in the NEBI Area.- 3. Effects of Globalisation on Production, Trade and Factor Prices in the Northern Countries.- 4. Globalisation and the Welfare State.- 5. Northern Europe in the Global Economy.- 6. Core Problems Facing Poland and Estonia Prior to EU Membership.- II: Spatial Planning and the Environment.- 7. Defining Integrated Coastal Management for the Baltic Sea Region.- 8. Urban Waterfront Regeneration in the Baltic States: The Case of Tallinn.- 9. Secure Development of the St Petersburg Region: An Imperative, Not an Option.- 10. The Oder ‘Flood of the Century’: Consequences for a Transboundary Flood Protection Concept.- 11. Radioactive Sources in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region: Are there Reasons to Be Concerned?.- III: Transborder Regional Co-Operation.- 12. Between ‘In’ and ‘Out’: EU Integration and Regional Policy-making in North-eastern Europe.- 13. The Nordic Countries and Russia: Prospects for Co-operation.- 14. The Finnish-Russian Border in a World of De-territorialisation.- 15. The Barents Region in European Spatial Planning.- 16. Building the Øresund Region.- IV: Political Integration, Territorial Governance and Security.- 17. High Politics in Northern Europe: Recent Developments and their Interpretation.- 18. National Integration in Estonia: Ethnic and Regional Problems in a Transitional Society.- 19. Kaliningrad: Recent Changes in Russia’s Exclave on the Baltic Sea.- 20. The Inflation of Crime in Russia: Paradoxes of a Threat Around the Baltic Sea.- 21. The Conversion of Military Areas in the Baltic States.- 22. Borders,Orders and Identities in the New European North.- North European and Baltic Statistics.- List of Abbreviations.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- About the Authors and Authors.