The Baltic States and their region : : new Europe or old? / / edited by David J. Smith.

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 th...

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Superior document:On the boundary of two worlds : identity, freedom, and moral imagination in the Baltics ; 3
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Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:On the boundary of two worlds ; 3.
Physical Description:1 online resource (329 p.)
Notes:"Selected papers from a conference held in January 2004 at the University of Glasgow"--Introd.
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Table of Contents:
  • Editor's introduction
  • Christopher S. BROWNING: From "east-west" to "new-Europe-old Europe": the American challenge to Finnish identity
  • Dovilė BUDRYTĖ: 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.