The NEBI YEARBOOK 1999 : North European and Baltic Sea Integration

Thorvald Stoltenberg Ambassador Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board A.5 the second volume of the this yearbook goes to press, Europe faces new and to some degree unexpected dangers of political and ideological division. It is a frightening realisation that not even ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Empire and the democratisation and economic transformation of most of the old Soviet-dominated Central and Eastern Europe, fissures have appeared that threaten to undo some of what has been accomplished in terms of East-West rapprochement. The immediate crisis over Kosovo may well have been resolved by the time this is being read. However, it is hard to escape a foreboding that some of the mutual ill will between Russia and the Western powers that has surfaced in the wake of that conflict may linger for years to come. It is therefore imperative that Russia and the Western powers sit down to discuss what can be done to avoid similar conflicts in the future and how to overcome mutual recriminations so that they do not harden into new political front lines between East and West in Europe. The recent developments make the promotion of integration in the NEBI area even more urgent. So far this process has been based on two equally impor­ tant platforms: economic integration and political integration, including mea­ sures to dismantle old conflict potentials. Front Matter....Pages i-1 The Northern Dimension, Russia and the Prospects for NEBI Integration....Pages 3-31 Front Matter....Pages 33-33 The Accession of Finland and the Non-Accession of Other NEBI States to EMU: Implications for Economic Integration in the NEBI Area....Pages 35-48 Effects of Globalisation on Production, Trade and Factor Prices in the Northern Countries....Pages 49-61 Globalisation and the Welfare State....Pages 63-73 Northern Europe in the Global Economy....Pages 75-86 Core Problems Facing Poland and Estonia Prior to EU Membership....Pages 87-98 Front Matter....Pages 99-99 Defining Integrated Coastal Management for the Baltic Sea Region....Pages 101-119 Urban Waterfront Regeneration in the Baltic States: The Case of Tallinn....Pages 121-133 Secure Development of the St Petersburg Region: An Imperative, Not an Option....Pages 135-149 The Oder ‘Flood of the Century’: Consequences for a Transboundary Flood Protection Concept....Pages 151-169 Radioactive Sources in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region: Are there Reasons to Be Concerned?....Pages 171-190 Front Matter....Pages 191-191 Between ‘In’ and ‘Out’: EU Integration and Regional Policy-making in North-eastern Europe....Pages 193-208 The Nordic Countries and Russia: Prospects for Co-operation....Pages 209-214 The Finnish-Russian Border in a World of De-territorialisation....Pages 215-228 The Barents Region in European Spatial Planning....Pages 229-238 Building the Øresund Region....Pages 239-255 Front Matter....Pages 257-257 High Politics in Northern Europe: Recent Developments and their Interpretation....Pages 259-275 National Integration in Estonia: Ethnic and Regional Problems in a Transitional Society....Pages 277-292 Kaliningrad: Recent Changes in Russia’s Exclave on the Baltic Sea....Pages 293-312 The Inflation of Crime in Russia: Paradoxes of a Threat Around the Baltic Sea....Pages 313-326 Front Matter....Pages 257-257 The Conversion of Military Areas in the Baltic States....Pages 327-334 Borders, Orders and Identities in the New European North....Pages 335-347 North European and Baltic Statistics....Pages 349-472 Back Matter....Pages 473-498 The NEBI Yearbook 1999 again aims to provide a balanced picture of both the integrationist opportunities and disintegrationist pressures in the entire North European and Baltic Sea area - a vast region with over 50 million inhabitants and great economic and trading potentials and crossing some of the most formidable historical and current divides of Europe. For this purpose it brings together 30 scholars from 10 countries covering a wide range of scientific fields that do not usually collaborate