Integration without joining? Neighbourhood relations at the Finnish - Russian border

The Finnish-Russian border is one of the oldest dividing lines on the European continent, but also the most stable and peaceful new border the EU has been sharing with Russia since 1995. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, it became both a site and an instrument of increased crossborder interaction...

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Main Author: Marin, Anaïs
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10419/84618
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spelling ftzbwkiel:oai:econstor.eu:10419/84618 2024-01-21T10:07:43+01:00 Integration without joining? Neighbourhood relations at the Finnish - Russian border Marin, Anaïs 2006 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/84618 eng eng Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) Series: DIIS Working Paper No. 2006:14 urn:isbn:8776051390 gbv-ppn:509839029 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/84618 http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen ddc:330 Grenze Grenzgebiet EU-Regionalpolitik Politische Integration Finnland Russland Karelien doc-type:workingPaper 2006 ftzbwkiel 2023-12-25T00:46:09Z The Finnish-Russian border is one of the oldest dividing lines on the European continent, but also the most stable and peaceful new border the EU has been sharing with Russia since 1995. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, it became both a site and an instrument of increased crossborder interaction and institutional innovation, as illustrated by the establishment of Euregio Karelia in 2000. The paper recalls the historical background of good-neighbourhood in the Finnish-Russian/Soviet borderlands and calls on constructivist IR theory to elaborate a model for analysing the factors, actors and mechanisms that contributed to the partial integration of this frontier. With Russian regions adjacent to the EU/Finnish border participating in the Northern Dimension, cross-border cooperation contributed to the growing regionalisation of the EU-Russia “strategic partnership”. The paper addresses the challenging conceptual and political issues posed by this trend towards an “integration without joining” at the EU’s external border. Report karelia* karelien EconStor (German National Library of Economics, ZBW) Russland
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Grenzgebiet
EU-Regionalpolitik
Politische Integration
Finnland
Russland
Karelien
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Grenzgebiet
EU-Regionalpolitik
Politische Integration
Finnland
Russland
Karelien
Marin, Anaïs
Integration without joining? Neighbourhood relations at the Finnish - Russian border
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Grenzgebiet
EU-Regionalpolitik
Politische Integration
Finnland
Russland
Karelien
description The Finnish-Russian border is one of the oldest dividing lines on the European continent, but also the most stable and peaceful new border the EU has been sharing with Russia since 1995. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, it became both a site and an instrument of increased crossborder interaction and institutional innovation, as illustrated by the establishment of Euregio Karelia in 2000. The paper recalls the historical background of good-neighbourhood in the Finnish-Russian/Soviet borderlands and calls on constructivist IR theory to elaborate a model for analysing the factors, actors and mechanisms that contributed to the partial integration of this frontier. With Russian regions adjacent to the EU/Finnish border participating in the Northern Dimension, cross-border cooperation contributed to the growing regionalisation of the EU-Russia “strategic partnership”. The paper addresses the challenging conceptual and political issues posed by this trend towards an “integration without joining” at the EU’s external border.
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title_short Integration without joining? Neighbourhood relations at the Finnish - Russian border
title_full Integration without joining? Neighbourhood relations at the Finnish - Russian border
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title_full_unstemmed Integration without joining? Neighbourhood relations at the Finnish - Russian border
title_sort integration without joining? neighbourhood relations at the finnish - russian border
publisher Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
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