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Informationen zum Autor Heikki Eskelinen is Professor (regional studies) at the Karelian Institute! University of Eastern Finland. Ilkka Liikanen is Professor (Border and Russian studies) at the Karelian Institute! University of Eastern Finland.James W. Scott is Professor of Regional and Border Studies at the Karelian Institute! University of Eastern Finland. Zusammenfassung This book analyses the complex geopolitical relationship between the Russian Federation and the European Union; it examines how regional actors have adapted to the challenges of internal and external integration, and what strategies they have developed to meet the pressures coming across the border and from the federal centre. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. On the Edge of Neighbourhood: Regional Dimensions of the EU-Russia Interface Heikki Eskelinen! Ilkka Liikanen! and James Wesley Scott Part 1. Northwest Russia: Regional Contexts of Political Integration2. Federal Reforms! Interregional Relations! and Political Integration in Northwest Russia Elena Belokurova and Maria Nozhenko3. Regional Community-Building and Cross-Border Interaction Elena Belokurova and Maria Nozhenko Part 2: Processes and Actors of Cross-Border Interaction 4. Geopolitics and the Market: Borderland Economies in the Making Heikki Eskelinen 5.The West and Co-operation with the West in Late and Post-Soviet Ethnic Mobilization in Russian Karelia Ilkka Liikanen6. Crossing the Borders of Finnish and Northwest Russian Labour Markets Pertti Koistinen and Oxana Krutova 7. Re-connecting Territorialities? - Spatial Planning Co-operation Between Eastern Finnish and Russian Subnational Governments Matti Fritsch8. Russia's Oil and Gas Infrastructure: New Routes! New Actors Dmitry Zimin9. Civil Society Organizations as Drivers of Cross-Border Interaction: On Whose Terms! For Which Purpose? Jussi Laine and Andrey Demidov Part 3: Northwest Russia: An Arena of Socio-Cultural Transformation 10. Company Towns on the Border: The Post-Soviet Transformation of Svetogorsk and Kostomuksha Dmitry Zimin! Juha Kotilainen! and Evgenia Prokhorova 11. Repositioning a Border Town: Sortavala Alexander Izotov12. Informal Transitions: Northwest Russian Youth Between 'Westernization' and Soviet Legacies Pirjo Jukarainen13. Karelia: A Finnish-Russian Borderland on the Edge of Neighbourhood Vladimir Kolossov and James Wesley Scott ...
