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Informationen zum Autor Olav Schram Stokke is Research Fellow and Director of Polar Studies at the Fridtjof Nanasen Institute, Norway. He is author of numerous monographs on international political economy, with a focus on regional cooperation and the management of natural resources and the environment. Ola Tunander is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo. He has written on history, political philosophy and military strategy, including Cold War Politics (SAGE 1989). he is a member of the editorial committees of the Journal of Peace Research and Internasjonal Politikk. Klappentext The Barents Region in the Scandinavian and Russian Arctic is emerging as one of the most dynamic and versatile East-West initiatives in Europe. Its unique, two-pillared institutional structure ensures that the state as well as local authorities are drawn into deliberations, as are representatives from the European Commission and the regional Saami organization. The region is immensely rich in minerals, petroleum and fishery resources of interest for Europe as a whole. It is the apex of the Cold War structures: with over 200 naval nuclear reactors and with more strategic nuclear weapons than anywhere else in the world, its importance extends far beyond the confines of Arctic Europe. To Russia, the Barents Region has become a link to Northern Europe and potentially to the European Union, it may become an instrument to stabilise its eastern borders in a militarily sensitive area. The Barents Region surveys regional cooperation in Arctic Europe. With contributions from leading Scandinavian and Russian scholars on Northern affairs, this volume examines the Barents Region as a political initiative, its historical and institutional architecture and its contributions to economic and environmental management in the North. Particular attention is paid to the impact of the Barents Region on security in Arctic Europe and its relationship to the wider process of European integration. Zusammenfassung This text examines the Barents region as a political initiative! its historical and institutional architecture and its contributions to economic and environmental management in the North. Attention is paid to the impact of the Barents region on security and on European integration. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Olav Schram Stokke and Ola Tunander PART ONE: A NEW POLICY FOR THE NORTH The Barents Region - Institutions, Cooperation and Prospects - Johan J[o with a line through]orgen Holst Cooperation in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region - Andrej Kozyrev Promising Begining Inventing the Barents Region - Ola Tunander Overcoming the East-West Divide Where Cultures Cross - Robert Bathurst Old Russia in a New North Living Conditions in the North - Erik Hansen The New Divide The Dynamics of the Barents Region - Rune Castberg, Olav Schram Stokke and Willy [o with a line through]Ostreng PART TWO: TOWARDS A COOPERATIVE REGION? The Barents Region in Historical Perspective - Jens Petter Nielsen Economic Cooperation - Rune Castberg Potentials and Problems in Northwest Russia The Barents Sea - Alf H[a with a circle on top]akon Hoel Fisheries Resources for Europe and Russia Oil and Gas - Arild Moe Future Role of the Barents Region Environmental Cooperation as a Driving Force in the Barents Region - Olav Schram Stokke The Northern Sea Route and the Barents Region - Willy [o with a line through it]Ostreng PART THREE: THE BARENTS REGION IN THE NEW EUROPE Russian Perspectives on the Barents Region - Pavel K Baev The Barents Region as a European Security-building Concept - Anders Kj[o with a line through it]olberg The Barents Region as a European Fronteir Region - Noralv Veggeland Region-building as Europe-building - Pertti Joenniemi Conclusions - Ola...
