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The book examines the security puzzles posed by the remaining legacies of dominance and conflict in the Baltic Sea region as governments seek to integrate the three Baltic sates in a more stable system of cooperative security.
The contributors include researchers from the ten CEECs, as well as from current EU member countries."--BOOK JACKET.
This book builds on the original conceptualization of stable peace by Kenneth Boulding and adds contemporary theoretical and empirical understandings of its nature, causes, conditions, dimensions, and prospects for consolidation and expansion. In original research, fifteen international scholars assess the policy relevance of stable peace for the Middle East peace process and for the future of Europe.
Frank Möller explores why the states and societies of the Baltic Sea region have not yet evolved into a security community despite the area undergoing, since the mid 1980s, considerable change with little turmoil. This book focuses on the tensions resulting from policies in the Baltic states aiming at an increase in both security and sovereignty. Möller shows how these states’ attempts at increasing their security were intricately bound up with their efforts at autonomous nation-state building. Möller argues that a primary obstacle to security community building was the construction of nation-states based upon an exceedingly traditional template emphasizing the connection between the st...
The transition of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia from being part of the Soviet Union to prospective inclusion in the enlarged European Union has led to a number of "emerging goals" for their educational systems, the theme of this series edited by Peck (educational studies, U. of Strathclyde, UK). This volume contains 10 papers discussing such topics as social change and language policy, changes in the Estonian educational system, the work of teachers' support centers, Latvian school management experience, and Estonian higher education policy. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
This text provides a source of citations to North American scholarships relating specifically to the area of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It indexes fields of scholarship such as the humanities, arts, technology and life sciences and all kinds of scholarship such as PhDs.
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