The EU-Russia Borderland : New Contexts for Regional Cooperation

ISBN-13: 9780415552479 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 240 str.

Heikki Eskilinen;Ilkka Liikanen;James W Scott

Opis

This text analyses the complex geopolitical relationship between the Russian Federation and the European Union; it examines how regional actors have adapted to the challenges of internal and external integration, and what strategies they have developed to meet the pressures coming across the border and from the federal centre.

Spis treści

1. On the Edge of Neighbourhood: Regional Dimensions of the EU–Russia Interface  Part 1. Northwest Russia: Regional Contexts of Political Integration  2. Federal Reforms, Interregional Relations, and Political Integration in Northwest Russia  3. Regional Community-Building and Cross-Border Interaction  Part 2: Processes and Actors of Cross-Border Interaction  4. Geopolitics and the Market: Borderland Economies in the Making  5. The West and Co-operation with the West in Late and Post-Soviet Ethnic Mobilization in Russian Karelia  6. Crossing the Borders of Finnish and Northwest Russian Labour Markets  7. Re-connecting Territorialities? – Spatial Planning Co-operation Between Eastern Finnish and Russian Subnational Governments  8. Russia’s Oil and Gas Infrastructure: New Routes, New Actors  9. Civil Society Organizations as Drivers of Cross-Border Interaction: On Whose Terms, For Which Purpose?  Part 3: Northwest Russia: An Arena of Socio-Cultural Transformation  10. Company Towns on the Border: The Post-Soviet Transformation of Svetogorsk and Kostomuksha  11. Repositioning a Border Town: Sortavala  12. Informal Transitions: Northwest Russian Youth Between ‘Westernization’ and Soviet Legacies  13. Karelia: A Finnish–Russian Borderland on the Edge of Neighbourhood

O autorze

Heikki Eskelinen is Professor (regional studies) at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. Ilkka Liikanen is Professor (Border and Russian studies) at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. James W. Scott is Professor of Regional and Border Studies at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland.