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Curtains of iron and gold : reconstructing borders and scales of interaction / edited by Heikki Eskelinen, Ilkka Liikanen, and Jukka Oksa.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boundaries.
- Boundaries--History.
- Nationalism.
- Geopolitics.
- History.
- European Union countries--Boundaries.
- European Union countries.
- Social integration--European Union countries.
- Social integration.
- International cooperation.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 394 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, [1999]
- Summary:
- This book examines the construction of new political, economic and mental borders in post-Cold War Europe. Various national and regional settings are analyzed along the old East-West divide.
- In post-Cold War Europe the East- West divide no longer exists in the form of the clear-cut Iron Curtain, separating two security blocs, two politico-economic systems, and two ideologically and culturally distinct worlds. Still, it remains clearly discernible, both in the form of unrelenting politico-cultural differences and as an economic Golden Curtain. At the same time, a more complicated system of intersecting political, economic and mental borders keeps developing. Today, there are various scales of interaction, which produce distinctive national, regional and local experiences of borders.
- In this book, the construction of new political, economic and mental borders is analyzed by specialists from both sides of the former East-West divide. The future of European borders is discussed in various national and regional settings, from the Barents Region in the North to the Old Habsburgian lands in 'Mitteleuropa'.
- Contents:
- Setting the Scene
- 2 The Political Geography of Boundaries at the End of the Millennium: Challenges of the De-territorializing World / Anssi Paasi 9
- 3 Towards a Conceptualization of Border: The Central European Experience / Josef Langer 25
- 4 Across the Line: Borders in Post-Westphalian Landscapes / Sergei Medvedev 43
- 5 Borders Change - So Do Space, Identity, and Community / Pirjo Jukarainen 57
- Cross-Border Dynamics in Prospective Major Regions
- 6 Frontier Regions in the National Strategy for Development: The Russian View / Alexander Granberg 75
- 7 Politics on the Edge: On the Restructuring of Borders in the North of Europe / Thomas Christiansen, Pertti Joenniemi 89
- 8 Urban Networking in the Baltic Sea Region. A Nordic View / Perttu Vartiainen 117
- 9 Economic Border Regions and Spaces in the Baltic Sea Region / J. Ilari Karppi 131
- Actors, Barriers and Interfaces
- 10 "Smuggled" Ethnicity and "Other" Russians. Construction of Identities in Post-Soviet Estonia / Olga Brednikova 153
- 11 National Interests and Local Needs in a Divided Setumaa: Behind the Narratives / Eiki Berg 167
- 12 Evolving Regimes for Local Transboundary Cooperation. The German-Polish Experience / James Wesley Scott 179
- 13 Entrepreneurial Decisions with Spatial Impact along the Eastern German Borders / Franz Barjak 195
- 14 Dynamics of Local Cross-Border Activities between Carinthia (Austria) and Slovenia / Doris Wastl-Walter, Andrea Kofler 213
- 15 Socio-economic Processes in the Hungarian-Yugoslavian Border Zone / Agnes Pal, Imre Nagy 229
- 16 Development, Environment, and Security in Asymmetrical Border Regions: European and North American Perspectives / Norris Clement, Paul Ganster, Alan Sweedler 243
- On the Divide in the North
- 17 The Changing Border and the Many Images of Karelia / Jukka Oksa 285
- 18 Near the Metropolis, beyond the Border. St. Petersburg and Eastern Finland before the October Revolution / Kimmo Katajala 297
- 19 Border-crossings. The Co-construction of National Security and Regional Development / Tarja Cronberg 317
- 20 Where Russia Meets the EU. Across the Divide in the Karelian Borderlands / Heikki Eskelinen, Elisa Haapanen, Pavel Druzhinin 329
- 21 Cross-Border Cooperation of Women's Organizations. The Case of the Karelian Republic / Larisa Boichenko, Kaija Heikkinen 347
- 22 The Political Construction of Identity: Reframing Mental Borders in Russian Karelia / Ilkka Liikanen 357
- 23 Asymmetry and Interaction. Borders in the International System / Jyrki Kakonen 377.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1840144602
- OCLC:
- 39727983
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