Saarts, Tơnis: Construction of Peripheries: Foucault vs. Lotman and the Potential Peripherisation of New Member States in the EU
21-38
Abstract
21
1. Introduction
21-22
2. Foucault: discursively constructed social peripheries
23-26
3. Lotman: peripheries are becoming centres
26-28
4. Negative discourse towards the new member states
28-33
5. A new approach on peripheries
33-35
References
36-38
Kiss, Tibor: Blue Economy principles for Peripheries
39-58
Abstract
39
1. Introduction
39-41
2. Paradigm of efforts to reconcile economy and ecology
41-42
3. Traditional competitiveness and economic growth
42-44
4. From sustainable development to a Blue Economy
44-46
5. Redefining competitiveness
46-47
6. The transition to a Blue Economy
47-49
7. Sustainable methods - examples
49-52
8. The ‘Green Valley’ - an analysis of future development possibilities
52-55
9. Conclusion
55-56
References
56-58
Deutsch, Nikolett - Pintér, Eva - Pintér, Tibor: The Effects of Liberalisation in Former Regulated Sectors in the European Union - The Case of Power and Financial Industries
59-75
Abstract
59
1. Introduction - Corporate diversification as a response to market liberalization
59-62
2. Market liberalization in the European Power and Banking Sectors
62-67
3. Corporate strategies of the dominant players in the Power Sector
67-71
4. Conclusion
71-73
References
74-75
Suvák, Andrea: Environmental Sustainability: Viable Quality of Life Factor for Medium Sized Cities on European Functional Peripheries?
77-86
Abstract
77
1. Changing economy - changing spatial patterns
77-79
2. Impacts on spatial planning - polycentric development
79-80
3. Small and medium sized towns in focus
81-82
4. Relations with environmental sustainability
82-84
5. Conclusion
84-85
References
85-86
Käkönen, Jyrki: Talking Estonia into the World: President Lennart Meri’s Narratives about Estonia’s Place in the World
87-106
Abstract
87
1. Introduction
87-88
2. Story of the past
89-90
3. Story about Russia
90-91
4.The story about where Estonia belongs
91-94
5. Where Estonia belongs
94-95
6. Story about the Russian threat and Estonian security
96-97
7. The narrative about where to go
98-100
8. Meri’s vision about the Estonian identity
100-101
9. Meri’s theoretical context
101-102
10. Conclusions
102-103
References
103-106
Kirna, Catlyn: Estonia’s Choice: Who are our Foreign Policy Friends in the xist Century?
107-119
Abstract
107
1. Introduction
107-109
2. Estonia - a typical small state
109-111
3. The past as a point of comparison
111-113
4. Baltic vs. Eastern co-operation
113-118
5. Conclusions: What is our choice and will it be made?
118-119
References
119
Lootus, Hindrek: The Cyprus Problem and the Estonian-Russian Border Dispute in the Context of European Union Accession
121-137
Abstract
121
1. Introduction
121-122
2. The Estonian-Russian border dispute
122-125
3. The Cyprus problem
125-127
4. Relations with the EU and beginning of the accession negotiations
127-128
5. Under international pressure?
129-131
6. If Estonia had not “retreated”
131-134
7. Conclusions: the Cyprus case as argument
134-135
References
136-137
Andrássy, György: Institutionalisation of Linguistic Diversity and the Emergence of Linguistic Freedom: How European Peripheries Matter?
139-157
Abstract
139
1. Institutionalisation of languages and language rights
139-143
2. International minority protection - the League of Nations and the UN
143-146
3. Minority protection and the Eastern enlargement of the European Union
147-148
4. Treaty, official and working languages in the European Union
148-152
5. verlaps between the two sides of institutionalisation of languages in the EU
152-153
6. Emergence of freedom of language for all
153-155
References
156-157
Nagy, Noémi: Double Standard in a Peripheral Policy of the European Union: the Issue of Minority Protection
159-173
Abstract
159
1. Introduction
159-160
2. The place of minority protection in European Union law
160-162
3. Arguments against the existence of double standards
162-163
4. The roots of double standards in Europe
163-165
5. The reasons of applying double standards in the European Union
165-168
6. Prospects for a coherent EU minority policy
168-171
7. Final conclusions
171
Reference
172-173
Vogl, Márk: Concerns of Topographical Indications in the Eastern Periphery of Europe
175-192
Abstract
175
1. Introduction
175-177
2. What kinds of obligations do the states have regarding the protection and promotion of topographical indications?
177-178
3. Obstacles of the use of topographical indications
178-189
Conclusion
189-190
References
190-192
Jakobson, Mari-Liis - Kalev, Leif: Transnationalisation and Peripheries: Reconsideration of a Model
193-221
Abstract
193
1. Introduction
193-194
2. World-systems theory and transnationalism theory: opposites that attract?
195-204
3. Core and periphery in transnationalism literature