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Russia's vast energy reserves, and its policies towards them have enormous importance in the current geopolitical landscape. This important book examines Russia's energy policies on the national, interregional and global level. It pays particular attention to energy policy actors ranging from state, federal and regional actors, to energy companies and international financial actors and organizations. The book models the formation of Russia's energy policies in terms of how energy policy actors perceive and map their policy environment. The case studies cover federal, regional and environmental

"Presenting International Studies as a wide, plural and inherently interdisciplinary field of research, this book shows its links with philosophy, peace research, history, geography, globalization studies, international political economy, political psychology, sociology and social theory, linguistics, strategic or war studies and anthropology"--

Introduction / Pami Aalto and Kirsten Westphal -- The EU-Russia energy dialogue and the future of European integration : from economic to politico-normative narratives / Pami Aalto -- Energy dialogue and the future of Russia : politics and economics in the struggle for Europe / Viatcheslav Morozov -- Energy dialogue from strategic partnership to the regional level of the Northern dimension / Tatiana Romanova -- Germany and the Eurussia energy dialogue / Kirsten Westphal -- The Nordic countries : engaging Russia, trading in energy or taming environmental threats? / Pami Aalto and Nina Tynkkynen -- The Baltic gateway : a corridor leading towards three different directions? / Eiki Berg -- Actors in Russias energy policy towards the EU / Stanislav L. Tkachenko -- Conclusion : prospects for a Pan-European energy policy / Pami Aalto -- Index

EU-Russian energy dialogue represents a policy issue that forces us to take a serious look at several crucial questions related to the present and future of Europe. This book not only outlines the overall characteristics of the energy dialogue, but also illustrates the involved policy implementation challenges by paying special attention to the regional context of northern Europe.

A comprehensive study of how and why the European Union has enlarged to become northern Europe's leading power. This book presents a fresh approach to the under-theorized field of EU foreign policy studies, showing how, since 1990, the EU has enlarged to include Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland

This work examines the construction of post-Soviet political space, geopolitical discourses and boundaries in Estonia. Making use of innovative methodological solutions such as Q-methodology, its analysis includes in-depth interviews that elucidate a variety of issues through human experience and subjective perception, such as Estonian-Russian border disputes of the 1990s, inter-ethnic issues and national integration and security. As Estonia is one of the frontline EU accession countries and is queuing for membership of NATO, the book raises broad questions of post-Soviet geopolitics in the Bal.