With EU and NATO membership for the Baltic States now a reality, this volume examines the relationship of the three countries, their constituent peoples and their surrounding region to the wider Europe, both historically and in the period since 1991. In particular, the contributors seek to locate the Baltic area within the manifold debates surrounding the concepts of "new" and "old" Europe, including those occasioned by the current conflict in Iraq. Covering issues of identity, sovereignty, minority rights, security and relations with Russia the work assesses the likely contribution of this region to an enlarged Euro-Atlantic community. It will appeal to specialists and students in the fields of area studies, history, politics and international relations.
Table of contents:
Editor's introduction
Christopher S. BROWNING: From "east-west" to "new-Europe-old Europe": the American challenge to Finnish identity
Dovile BUDRYTE: Lithuania's new (in)security: transatlantic tensions and the dilemma of dual loyalty
Pertti JOENNIEMI: The challenges of "new" and "old": the case of Europe's north
Marko LEHTI: Estonia and Latvia: A "new" Europe challenges the "old"?
Sergei JAKOBSON-OBOLENSKI: Overlapping ideological boundaries and transformations in the EU periphery: the Baltic States and Kaliningrad
Leonidas DONSKIS: The promise of certainty, safety and security in an uncertain, unsafe and insecure world: the emergence of Lithuanian populism
Charles WOOLFSON: Labour rights, social conflict and cohesion in accession Lithuania: implications for EU enlargement
Dirk CROLS: Old and new minorities on the international checkboard: from League to Union
David J. SMITH: Non-territorial cultural autonomy as a Baltic contribution to Europe between the wars
Martyn HOUSDEN: Cultural autonomy in Estonia: one of history's "curiosities"?
Helen M. MORRIS: The non-citizens of the EU
Viatcheslav MOROZOV: The Baltic States and Russia in the new Europe: a neo-Gramscian perspective on the global and the local
Paul HOLTOM: The gatekeeper "hinge" concept and the promotion of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian new/postmodern security agendas
Eero MIKENBERG: Estonian-Russian cross-border cooperation: the warning example of Tartu-Pskov
Table of contents:
Editor's introduction
Christopher S. BROWNING: From "east-west" to "new-Europe-old Europe": the American challenge to Finnish identity
Dovile BUDRYTE: Lithuania's new (in)security: transatlantic tensions and the dilemma of dual loyalty
Pertti JOENNIEMI: The challenges of "new" and "old": the case of Europe's north
Marko LEHTI: Estonia and Latvia: A "new" Europe challenges the "old"?
Sergei JAKOBSON-OBOLENSKI: Overlapping ideological boundaries and transformations in the EU periphery: the Baltic States and Kaliningrad
Leonidas DONSKIS: The promise of certainty, safety and security in an uncertain, unsafe and insecure world: the emergence of Lithuanian populism
Charles WOOLFSON: Labour rights, social conflict and cohesion in accession Lithuania: implications for EU enlargement
Dirk CROLS: Old and new minorities on the international checkboard: from League to Union
David J. SMITH: Non-territorial cultural autonomy as a Baltic contribution to Europe between the wars
Martyn HOUSDEN: Cultural autonomy in Estonia: one of history's "curiosities"?
Helen M. MORRIS: The non-citizens of the EU
Viatcheslav MOROZOV: The Baltic States and Russia in the new Europe: a neo-Gramscian perspective on the global and the local
Paul HOLTOM: The gatekeeper "hinge" concept and the promotion of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian new/postmodern security agendas
Eero MIKENBERG: Estonian-Russian cross-border cooperation: the warning example of Tartu-Pskov