This book is the first comprehensive study of how and why the European Union has enlarged to become northern Europe's leading power.
Pami Aalto presents a new approach to the under-theorized field of EU foreign policy studies, showing how, since 1990, the EU has enlarged to include Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, and also incorporated the former East Germany. He also examines how this northern expansion has led the EU to reflect on relations with Russia and its north-western regions.
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This book is the first comprehensive study of how and why the European Union has enlarged to become northern Europe's leading power.
Distinctive due to explicit and systematically developed links between international relations (IR) and related disciplines, this book addresses global and regional interactions and the complex policy problems that often characterise this agenda. Such enhanced communication is crucial for improving the capacity of IR to engage with concrete issues that today are of high policy relevance for international organisations, states, diplomats, mediators and humankind in general. Whilst the authors do not reject the present IR, they offer a wider research agenda with new directions intended not only...
Distinctive due to explicit and systematically developed links between international relations (IR) and related disciplines, this book addresses globa...
This work examines the construction of post-Soviet political space, geopolitical discourses and boundaries in Estonia.
Making use of innovative methodological solutions such as Q-methodology, its analysis includes in-depth interviews that elucidate a variety of issues through human experience and subjective perception, such as Estonian-Russian border disputes of the 1990s, inter-ethnic issues and national integration and security. As Estonia is one of the frontline EU accession countries and is queuing for membership of NATO, the book raises broad questions of post-Soviet...
This work examines the construction of post-Soviet political space, geopolitical discourses and boundaries in Estonia.
