The Baltic States and their region : new Europe or old? /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
2005.
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| Series: | On the boundary of two worlds ;
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Table of Contents:
- Table of contents; Editor's introduction; From "east-west" to "new Europe-old Europe": the American challenge to Finnish identity; Lithuania's new (in)security: transatlantic tensions and the dilemma of dual loyalty; The challenges of "new" and "old": the case of Europe's north; Estonia and Latvia: A "new" Europe challenges the "old"?; Overlapping ideological boundaries and transformations in the EU periphery: the Baltic States and Kaliningrad; The promise of certainty, safety and security in an uncertain, unsafe and insecure world: the emergence of Lithuanian populism.
- Labour rights, social conflict and cohesion in accession Lithuania: implications for EU enlargementOld and new minorities on the international chessboard: from League to Union; Non-territorial cultural autonomy as a Baltic contribution to Europe between the wars; Cultural autonomy in Estonia: one of history's "curiosities"?; The non-citizens of the EU; The Baltic States and Russia in the new Europe: a neo-Gramscian perspective on the global and the local; The gatekeeper "hinge" concept and the promotion of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian new/postmodern security agendas.