Table of Contents

Possessing a Baltic Europe - retold national narratives in the European North, Marko Lehti; Nordic near abroad or new Northern Europe? perspectives on post-Cold War regional co-operation in the Baltic Sea area, David J. Smith; past politics in North-Eastern Europe - the role of history in post-Cole War identity politics, Jorg Hackman; from modern to post-modern region-building - emancipating the Finnish nation from the state, Christopher S. Browning; the encounter between the Nordic and the Northern - torn apart but meeting again?; looking for neighbours - origins and developments of Latvian rhetoric on Nordic "closeness", Valters Scerbinskis; regional security - all or nothing at all?, John Hiden; Estonia and Europe - a common identity or an identity crisis?, Vahur Made; paradise regained - the conceptualization of Europe in the Lithuanian debate, Inga Pavlovaite; the Baltic States in Russian foreign policy discourse - can Russia become a Baltic country?, Viatcheslav Morozov; post-Soviet geo-politics in the North of Europe, Pami Aalto; clash of the boundaries? the European Union and Russia in the Northern dimension, Hiski Haukkala.