Post-Cold War Identity Politics: Northern and Baltic Experiences: Northern and Baltic Experiences (Cass Series--Nationalism and Ethnicity)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Map......Page 9
Contributors......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 12
Series Editor’s Preface......Page 14
Foreword......Page 15
Introduction: Other Europes......Page 18
NOTES......Page 25
INVENTING A BALTIC WORLD......Page 28
INVENTING SIMILARITIES BEYOND THE EAST-WEST DIVISION......Page 31
A Baltic Finnic Space......Page 32
The New Hansa......Page 35
A FUTURE-ORIENTED BALTIC EUROPE......Page 37
Escaping Marginalization......Page 38
Patronizing the Baltics......Page 40
BECOMING BALTIC......Page 43
Creating New Political Spatiality......Page 44
A Baltic Golden Age......Page 46
CHALLENGING THE BALTIC......Page 50
The Northern Dimension......Page 51
From the Yule-land to the Amber Gateway......Page 53
A BALTIC EUROPE......Page 56
NOTES......Page 57
2 Nordic Near Abroad or New Northern Europe? Perspectives on Post-Cold War Regional Co-operation in the Baltic Sea Area......Page 66
EAST AND WEST IN THE NEW EUROPE......Page 68
A NEW REGIONALISM?......Page 70
RESPONSES TO EUROPEANIZATION: THE NORDIC NATIONS......Page 73
RESPONSES TO REGIONALIZATION: THE NORDIC NEAR ABROAD......Page 76
INTEGRATION AND NORMALIZATION: THE BALTIC STATES, THE WEST AND RUSSIA......Page 81
CONCLUSION......Page 84
NOTES......Page 85
3 Past Politics in North-Eastern Europe: The Role of History in Post-Cold War Identity Politics......Page 94
THE BALTIC SEA AREA AS A HISTORICAL REGION......Page 96
PAST POLITICS......Page 98
Blank Spots......Page 100
Victims and Perpetrators......Page 101
OVERCOMING NATIONAL HISTORY......Page 104
CONCLUSION......Page 107
NOTES......Page 108
THE CHALLENGES OF REGION-BUILDING......Page 118
THE SERVILE NATION: PRIORITIZING THE STATE AS THE SUBJECT OF SECURITY......Page 121
FROM SERVILITY TO FREEDOM: BREAKING THE NATION-STATE NEXUS......Page 123
The End of the Cold War and the Challenges of Globalization......Page 125
The Post-modern Turn and the Reimagination of Territory......Page 128
REAPPRAISING HISTORY: FINLANDIZATION REVISITED......Page 132
‘European’ Finland......Page 134
CONCLUSION......Page 137
NOTES......Page 138
5 The Encounter Between the Nordic and the Northern: Torn Apart but Meeting Again?......Page 144
NORDEN: A COMMUNITY OF DESTINY......Page 147
LINKING UP WITH A NEW ENVIRONMENT......Page 149
THE RETURN OF NORTHERNNESS......Page 152
A CONTEST IN THE MARGINS......Page 155
ROMANTIC GAZE TOWARDS THE NORTH......Page 158
NORTHERNIZING THE NORTH......Page 160
NORTHERN IN THE PLURAL......Page 162
CONCLUSION......Page 164
NOTES......Page 167
6 Looking for Neighbours: Origins and Development of Latvian Rhetoric on Nordic ‘Closeness’......Page 172
THE ‘AGE OF THE SWEDES’ AND BALTIC-SCANDINAVIAN ORIENTATION......Page 173
The Baltic-Finnish Orientation......Page 177
THE SOVIET OCCUPATION AND THE PERIOD SINCE THE RESTORATION OF INDEPENDENCE......Page 179
CONCLUSION......Page 183
NOTES......Page 184
7 Regional Security: All or Nothing at All?......Page 188
NOTES......Page 195
8 Estonia and Europe: A Common Identity or an Identity Crisis?......Page 198
The German Dimension......Page 199
The Nordic (Finnish-Scandinavian) Dimension......Page 201
The Russian Dimension......Page 202
The Baltic Dimension......Page 203
‘Peripherality Syndrome’......Page 204
Isolationism vs. Europeanism......Page 205
CONCLUSION......Page 208
NOTES......Page 209
TOWARDS A DISCURSIVE ANALYSIS OF LITHUANIA’S EUROPE......Page 214
RETURN TO EUROPE AND DISTANCE FROM THE EAST: FAMILY TIES AND VOLCANO NEIGHBOURHOODS......Page 216
NATION/STATE AND EUROPE: HOW PERFECT A MATCH?......Page 220
Ethnic Nation and Protective State......Page 221
Saved by Europe?......Page 222
‘SHE’S NOT THAT INNOCENT’: ALTERNATIVE DISCOURSES ON ‘EUROPE’......Page 224
‘EUROPE’ AS A DISCURSIVE NODAL POINT......Page 226
CONCLUSION......Page 227
NOTES......Page 228
THE DISCOURSE OF ‘FALSE EUROPE’......Page 234
THE BALTIC STATES IN THE RUSSIAN DISCUSSION: THE 1998 CRISIS......Page 237
THE BALTIC STATES AS A ‘FALSE EUROPE’ IN THE CURRENT DEBATE......Page 241
THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTINUITY FOR RUSSIAN STATE-BUILDING......Page 246
THE BALTIC STATES AND RUSSIA’S NATIONAL INTEREST......Page 252
CONCLUSION......Page 258
NOTES......Page 260
THE CONTEST OVER ORDER IN EUROPE......Page 268
FORMAL GEO-POLITICS......Page 271
PRACTICAL GEO-POLITICS......Page 273
Pre-Soviet/Soviet vs. Post-Soviet Realities......Page 274
Russia vs. the Small Baltic States......Page 276
NEW BOUNDARIES IN THE NORTH OF EUROPE......Page 278
CONCLUSION: POST-SOVIET GEO-POLITICS AS A METAPHOR......Page 281
NOTES......Page 283
12 Clash of the Boundaries? The European Union and Russia in the Northern Dimension......Page 290
RUSSIA: THE AGONY OF TRANSITION......Page 292
Russia’s Borders......Page 293
The Nature of the State in Russia......Page 295
Where is Russia Going?......Page 298
THE EUROPEAN UNION: ESTABLISHING THE BOUNDARIES OF ORDER......Page 299
Enlargement......Page 300
THE EU-RUSSIAN BORDER IN NORTHERN EUROPE: THE ROLE OF THE NORTHERN DIMENSION......Page 302
CONCLUSION......Page 306
NOTES......Page 307
Select Bibliography......Page 314
Index......Page 326