Adapting to European integration?
Kaliningrad, Russia and the European Union
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2009
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780719079016
- Publish Date
- Jan 2009
- List Price
- $97.95
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Following the restoration of Lithuania's independence and the dismantlement of the Soviet Union, the Kaliningrad region is now an exclave surrounded by EU member states. Departing from the analytical framework of Europeanisation, this book analyses the interaction between Russia and its Kaliningrad region on one side, and their European partners on the other side, thus assessing the region's potential to serve as Russia's main opening to the EU.
How do EU relations "feed back" into Kaliningrad's domestic arena, or, put differently, does Kaliningrad become "Europeanised" - at least to some extent? In particular, do EU standards and norms impact on the exclave and in what ways? The book not only offers thorough case studies of a number of policy areas affected by the EU (environmental, economics and higher education), it also refines our way of thinking about Europeanisation "beyond" Europe.
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Contributor Notes
Stefan Ganzle is Visiting Assistant Professor (DAAD) at the Institute for European Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Guido Muntel is a diplomat currently based at the German Foreign Office in Berlin. Evgeny Vinokurov is Head of the Economic Analysis Unit at the Strategy and Research Department of the Eurasian Development Bank.