The EU-Russia borderland
Subtitle: new contexts for regional cooperation
By: edited by Heikki Eskelinen, Ilkka Liikanen, James W. Scott
Series: BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies -- 84; BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies -- 84.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780415552479; 9780203095409
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Boundaries; Border towns; Relations; Economic integration
Other titles: European Union-Russia borderland
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On the edge of neighbourhood: regional dimensions of the EU-Russia interface / Heikki Eskelinen, Ilkka Liikanen, and James Wesley Scott; title: Northwest Russia: regional contexts of political integration. Federal reforms, interregional relations, and political integration in Northwest Russia / Elena Belokurova and Maria Nozhenko; title: Regional community-building and cross-border interaction / Elena Belokurova and Maria Nozhenko; title: Processes and actors of cross-border interaction. Geopolitics and the market: borderland economies in the making / Heikki Eskelinen; title: The West and co-operation with the West in late and post-Soviet ethnic mobilization in Russian Karelia / Ilkka Liikanen; title: Crossing the borders of Finnish and Northwest Russian labour markets / Pertti Koistinen and Oxana Krutova; title: Re-connecting territorialities? - spatial planning co-operation between Eastern Finnish and Russian subnational governments / Matti Fritsch; title: Russia's oil and gas infrastructure: new routes, new actors / Dmitry Zimin; title: Civil society organizations as drivers of cross-border interaction: on whose terms, for which purpose? / Jussi Laine and Andrey Demidov; title: Northwest Russia: an arena of socio-cultural transformation. Company towns on the border: The post-Soviet transformation of Svetogorsk and Kostomuksha / Dmitry Zimin, Juha Kotilainen, and Evgenia Prokhorova; title: Repositioning a border town: Sortavala / Alexander Izotov; title: Informal transitions: Northwest Russian youth between 'Westernization' and Soviet legacies / Pirjo Jukarainen; title: Karelia: a Finnish-Russian borderland on the edge of neighbourhood / Vladimir Kolossov and James Wesley Scott.