The NEBI YEARBOOK 2003

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. The NEBI Area Ten Years Later

   1. The NEBI Area Ten Years Later

      • Lars Hedegaard, Bjarne Lindström

      Pages 3-18

3. Economic Integration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Knocking on the Door: The Baltic Rim Transition Countries Ready for Europe?

      • Claus-Friedrich Laaser, Klaus Schrader

      Pages 21-45

   3. Poland’s Incomplete Economic Transition

      • Henryk Cwiklinski

      Pages 47-54

   4. What Kind of Civil Service? Trends in Public Administration Reform in Eastern Europe

      • Vita King

      Pages 55-66

   5. St Petersburg: A Russian Gateway to Europe?

      • Grigory Dudarev, Paavo Suni

      Pages 67-83

   6. The Baltic Universities — Facing New Challenges

      • Arild Saether

      Pages 85-95

   7. European Integration as a Process: The Case of Tartu University

      • Jaak Aaviksoo

      Pages 97-107

4. Spatial Planning and the Environment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Local Agenda 21 in the Baltic Sea Area: Ecological, Economic and Political Stability for Local Level Sustainable Development

      • Marko Joas

      Pages 111-126

   3. The Role of Energy in the Northern Dimension

      • Tero Lausala

      Pages 127-139

   4. The Environmental Legacy of the Soviet Armed Forces in the Baltic States

      • Henri Myrttinen

      Pages 141-150

   5. Economic Co-operation in the Barents Region: Russian-Norwegian Trade in the Fishing Industry

      • Frode Nilssen

      Pages 151-164

5. Transborder Regional Co-operation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. Towards Interregional Partnership Prospects in the Baltic Sea Region

      • Ilari Karppi, Audrey Retailleau

      Pages 167-185

   3. Picture of a ‘New Europe’ as Portrayed by Cross-Border Co-operation Initiatives

      • Marjorie Jouen

      Pages 187-203

   4. Technology Transfer and Innovation in the Baltic Sea Region — a Cross-Border Perspective

      • Per Högselius

      Pages 205-221

   5. Euregio Karelia: In Search of a Relevant Space for Action

      • Tarja Cronberg

      Pages 223-239

   6. Results and Perspectives of Transnational Co-operation for Spatial Development in the Baltic Sea Region

      • Wilfried Görmar

      Pages 241-258

Bjllrn Tore Godal Norwegian Ambassador to Germany Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board Several of the contributions to the present volume of The NEBI Yearbook have been inspired by the fact that roughly speaking, ten years have passed since the first steps were taken to initiate cross-border co-operation in the Barents and Baltic Sea areas. One of the most important co-operative organisations in the European Northeast, i. e. The Council of the Baltic Sea States, was launched in 1992. The Barents Euro Arctic Council was established in 1993. An avalanche of co-operative and cross-border initiatives has since hit this part of Europe with all kinds of actors participating - states, regional and municipal authorities, univer­ sities, national organisations, businesses and private interests. Even international organisations and actors from outside the immediate NEBI area have taken a special interest in this dynamic part of the world. Among the most important is the European Union, whose Finnish-inspired Northern Dimension initiative has become a permanent fixture. As many of the chapters in NEBI 2003 testifY, integration in the NEB I area - across old political and ideological borders and cultural and socio-economic divides that are among the most pronounced anywhere in the world - has on the whole been a great success.

• Baltic Sea Region
• Baltic Statistic
• Euregio
• Europe
• European Integration
• European Union (EU)
• Governance
• Northern Europe
• Territorial Governance
• Trans-border Integration

• DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark

  Lars Hedegaard

• Statistics and Research Åland, Mariehamnn, Åland Islands, Finland

  Bjarne Lindström

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