Download or read book Unravelling the Baltic Sea Conundrum written by Carmen Gebhard and published by Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. This book was released on 2009 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seit 1989 ist es im Ostseeraum zu einer explosionsartigen Entstehung einer Vielzahl von regionalen Initiativen und Zusammenschlussen gekommen. Der Ostseeraum weist bis heute eine europaweit einzigartig hohe Konzentration an kooperativen regionalen Strukturen auf. Diese bilden gemeinsam ein enges Netzwerk von Vereinigungen, die unter dem Uberbegriff der Ostseezusammenarbeit' interagieren. Diese Studie analysiert die Hintergrunde dieses regionalen Phanomens oder so genannten "Ostsee-Ratsels" auf Basis eines Vergleichs zwischen den Regionalpolitiken zweier staatlicher Schlusselakteure, Schweden und Finnland, wobei der europaische Integrationsprozess als ubergeordneter Bezugsrahmen fur die Untersuchung dient. In the course of the 1990s, a variety of regional initiatives and associations emerged in the Baltic Sea Region. As a result, today, the region features an extremely high concentration of regionalist structures, which add up to a tight network of cooperative arrangements that all label themselves as Baltic'. The present study looks closely at this specific regional phenomenon, the 'Baltic Sea Conundrum', by employing a comparative approach. Looking at the cases of Sweden and Finland, their political performance as both regional stakeholders and members of the EU, it is sought to show how in recent years regional agendas have intersected with European issues and vice versa.

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Download or read book The Baltic written by Michael North and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this overview of the Baltic region from the Vikings to the European Union, Michael North presents the sea and the lands that surround it as a Nordic Mediterranean, a maritime zone of shared influence, with its own distinct patterns of trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. Covering over a thousand years in a part of the world where seas have been much more connective than land, The Baltic: A History transforms the way we think about a body of water too often ignored in studies of the world’s major waterways. The Baltic lands have been populated since prehistory by diverse linguistic groups: Balts, Slavs, Germans, and Finns. North traces how the various tribes, peoples, and states of the region have lived in peace and at war, as both global powers and pawns of foreign regimes, and as exceptionally creative interpreters of cultural movements from Christianity to Romanticism and Modernism. He examines the golden age of the Vikings, the Hanseatic League, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and Peter the Great, and looks at the hard choices people had to make in the twentieth century as fascists, communists, and liberal democrats played out their ambitions on the region’s doorstep. With its vigorous trade in furs, fish, timber, amber, and grain and its strategic position as a thruway for oil and natural gas, the Baltic has been—and remains—one of the great economic and cultural crossroads of the world.

Download or read book Central Europe on the Threshold of the 21st Century written by Adam Jarosz and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws attention to selected aspects of the Central European reality and discusses interesting subjects related to the political, economic and social landscape of the region, which are in a continuous process of transformation. The book will be a useful source of knowledge, as Central Europe is still considered to be an “undiscovered island” in the “changeable waters” of contemporary international relations.

Download or read book Sub regionalisms in the European Union Bridge builders or spoilers written by Anna-Lena Kirch and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's interconnected, differentiated and polarized European Union, sub-regional groupings between the national and EU level are a highly relevant empirical phenomenon. Despite their importance, the interactions between sub-regionalisms and EU actors and processes remain under-researched. This book fills this large research gap by applying a systematic comparative approach. Taking into account a huge corpus of empirical data gained through expert interviews and document analysis, this study provides the conceptual and empirical groundwork necessary to better understand EU sub-regionalism. For the timeframe between 2009 and 2018, it analyses the scope of sub-regional cooperation in the Baltic, Benelux and Visegrád groupings. Moreover, it compares their respective institutional design, political identity, foreign policy as well as their external recognition by EU actors. A special focus lies on their role in six EU policy cases, including EU budget negotiations, TTIP, the drafting process of the EU Global Strategy, refugee relocation quotas, the revision of the posted workers directive and defence cooperation through PESCO. In its conclusion, this book identifies two sub-regional archetypes: functional hubs and political tools. While differing in many regards, the shared assessment finds that the overall bridge-building efforts of the Baltic, Benelux and Visegrád sub-regionalisms exceed their spoiling potential.

Download or read book The Baltic Sea A Space of Changing Expectations written by Rolf Petri and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Baltic Sea written by Seppo Keränen and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Northern Shores written by Alan Warwick Palmer and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A saga spanning a thousand years, central to the story of Europe We pass through the legendary castles of Elsinore and Halsingborg to enter the Baltic world. From early Viking days and then under the Byzantine empire, the Baltic was always much more than Europe's backwater, and in medieval times the area was an important trading ground. Each individual country developed separately, but then in the late 17th and early 18th centuries came the sole attempt to create a unified Baltic Empire based in Sweden. However, with the rise of Russian influence, this came apart and Russia expanded her empire in the region, annexing Finland, to be followed by the Prussianising of the Polish provinces. Great national sentiment grew in all Baltic states, and a high cultural level was achieved - both musically and in literature.

Download or read book The Baltic Sea written by Aarno Voipio and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Department of Political Science Institute for Advanced Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Born Into a Dream written by Gustav N. Kristensen and published by BWV Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HauptbeschreibungThroughout centuries, the Baltic Sea has mitigated free trade and cultural exchange among people and nations with widely different backgrounds, which gave dynamism and diversity. After a troubled - though in a historical context fairly short - period with limitations on trade and individual freedom, our shared sea has resumed its old role."Born into a dream" looks byond the dark period into the new freedom and into the challenging building up of the societies around our common heritage. Thank you for the "the dream."

Download or read book Youth Around the Baltic Sea written by Valeska Henze and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Baltic Sea Experiment written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Treasures of the Baltic Sea a hidden wealth of culture written by Sjöhistoriska museet (Sverige). and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Baltic Sea written by Helena Telkänranta and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Studies of the pollution of the Baltic Sea written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The North Sea and the Baltic Sea written by Nina Morgan and published by Hodder Wayland. This book was released on 1996 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book which looks at aspects of these two seas including the underwater landscape, life in the sea, shipping and canals resources & pollution. Col. photos, index, glossary and further reading list. 48 pg. 10 yrs+