“Baltic regionalism”??

Rebas, Hain

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“…Many reasons can be given for this unsatisfactory pace, including the achievement of consensus (Lehti and Smith 2003;Rebas 1988;Kieniewicz 2007;Giguère 2007). In the current discussion, it is meaningful to highlight a few gauges of the depth and complexity of the issue.…”

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“…Rebas (1988) notes that many people across the Baltics "have taken essentially little satisfaction in each other's presence," have rather, "until quite recently, despite minimal distancing, lived more next to each other than with each other". While Rebas wrote this opinion more than 20 years ago, it provides another reason why the pace of implementation of a common Baltic Sea strategy is as yet struggling along.…”

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“…It is however easier to find examples of times when communication between Baltic Sea Region societies has been at a standstill, than to highlight moments when communication played the crucial role. Rebas (1988) therefore makes a sustainable point in claiming that a voluntary, democratically rooted "regionalism" is the only realistic hope for a "Baltic" future, since such a democratic impulse is dependent on localised, multi-level communication and the development of listening strategies across a range of interests.…”

Section: Regional Identity In the Baltic Sea Regionmentioning

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New structures, changing identities: the concepts of the Baltic Sea region

Janauskas

2010

Asia Eur J

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The accession of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland to the European Union (EU) has led to an increase in initiatives on Baltic Sea issues and a degree of enhanced confidence in moving towards solutions. While EU policies and instruments, and the provision of significant financial resources, have increased, one might still ask whether people across the Baltic Sea region are ready for the changes implied by the new Baltic strategy and comparable initiatives. Marko Lehti and David Smith have "tried to show that national thinking is by no means self-evident and that the Baltic can be comprehended as a trans-national space". Yet, how this position is articulated in the various societies warrants close investigation. This position is closely related to dominant identities and images within Baltic societies. How will the EU's innovative strategy and the resulting change of images impact upon the conceptual understandings of the Baltic Sea and region, including perhaps the search for a common identity as a successful and a pilot scheme?Since 2004, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland have gained more instruments and confidence in the search of solutions related to abiding Baltic Sea issues. This is one of those rare occasions looking at the history of the Baltic Sea area when so much depends not just on foreign policy directions, governmental institutions, or international organisations but on the readiness of societies to implement signed documents and strategies. With the entry into the European Union, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Polish societies become well involved in the creation of the common Baltic area. Baltic area studies programmes have appeared more commonly in universities, old and forgotten but at the same time very important infrastructure projects have been renewed; in addition, better cooperation in strengthening NGO sectors, possibilities to soak up knowledge about the main functions, principles and values in the EU have influence on the appearance and perception of a new regional Baltic/Northern identity. The European Union has a strong legislative influence on Asia Eur J (2010) 8:339-345

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Section: Still Struggling For Implementationmentioning

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New structures, changing identities: the concepts of the Baltic Sea region

Janauskas

2010

Asia Eur J

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A region-building approach to Northern Europe

Neumann¹

1994

Rev. Int. Stud.

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This article argues the case for a new approach to the analysis of regions. It highlights how a region is constantly being denned and redefined by its members in a permanent discourse with each member attempting to identify itself at the core of the region. The core is defined in both territorial and functional terms and this definition necessarily involves a manipulation of knowledge and power. This region building approach utilizes the literature on nation-building and the genealogical writings of anti-foundationalists. It does not, however, attempt to place the study of regions in international relations on a new footing or replace what are arguably the two dominant approaches in the existing literature: an ‘inside-out’ approach focusing on cultural integration and an ‘outside-in’ approach focusing on geopolitics. Rather, it aims to extend the ongoing debate by asking questions about how and why the existence of a given region was postulated in the first place, who perpetuates its existence and with what intentions, and how students of regions, by including or excluding certain areas and peoples, help to perpetuate or transform a given region. After sketching the divergent approaches used to analyze regions, the second part of the article identifies how the two dominant approaches have comprehended Northern Europe, and it then uses the region-building approach to criticize and supplement their findings.

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The democratic experience in divided societies: The Baltic states in comparative perspective

Evans¹,

Lipsmeyer

2001

Journal of Baltic Studies

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“Baltic regionalism”??

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New structures, changing identities: the concepts of the Baltic Sea region

New structures, changing identities: the concepts of the Baltic Sea region

A region-building approach to Northern Europe

The democratic experience in divided societies: The Baltic states in comparative perspective

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