The EU-Russia Borderland : New Contexts for Regional Cooperation (Hardcover)

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 Integration  2. Federal Reforms, Interregional Relations, and Political Integration in Northwest Russia Elena Belokurova and Maria Nozhenko  3. 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 Liikanen  6. 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 Fritsch  8. Russia’s Oil and Gas Infrastructure: New Routes, New Actors Dmitry Zimin  9. 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 Izotov  12. Informal Transitions: Northwest Russian Youth Between ‘Westernization’ and Soviet Legacies  Pirjo Jukarainen  13. Karelia: A Finnish?Russian Borderland on the Edge of Neighbourhood Vladimir Kolossov and James Wesley Scott