New Publication: Wider Europe. Nordic and Baltic Lessons to Post-Enlargement Europe

"Wider Europe. Nordic and Baltic Lessons to Post-Enlargement Europe", edited by Fabrizio Tassinari, Pertti Joenniemi and Uffe Jakobsen. This volume departs from the idea that the Baltic Sea region can be regarded as a significant laboratory in view of wider European developments. Local and regional resources have over the recent years been mobilized rather successfully. This has been done by transcending previous borderlines in order to create social and economic well-being as well as stability. The various contributions in this book explore this development and the policies of the various relevant actors. In particular, questions are posed as to the impact of the enlargement in 2004 and the more recent European developments. This includes the EU devising itself a new neighbourhood (ENP) policy. Is there something in the region that others can learn from? Are the actors in the region able to take stock of their own achievements and utilize them in a broader European environment? Moreover, how are these achievements related to the more recent endeavours to create a more standardized European configuration with the policies of the core assumed to be applicable through-out Europe? The book can be ordered at http://www.diis.dk/sw14983.asp . The book can be downloaded free as a pdf file (size 1,33 Mb) at http://www.diis.dk/graphics/Publications/Books2006/Wider%20Europe/Wider%20Europe.pdf